Artist Spotlight: Dianne Harris
Dianne Harris takes a multi disciplinary approach to exploring the unseen realms of existence. Though a multitude of different media she merges divergent fields of perception from science, philosophy, mythology and psychology to heighten the awareness of human potentiality and question the self-imposed limitations that serve to confine the very nature of our ideas, thoughts and being.
Using light art, kinetic sculpture, video & holographic installation, Harris combines reality with non-reality. Beyond the specifics of time or place, her work simultaneously references the past, present and future to explore states of harmony, discordance, disappearance, re-emergence and the vibration of matter.
Dianne’s work focuses on the unseen and the invisible forces surrounding us and within us. Many of her concepts and ideas stem from her direct spiritual experiences and studies of ancient knowledge that resonate strongly into manifestation through her.
“The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths” - Bruce Nauman 1969
Exhibiting at Heart of the Tribe until March Caduceus & E=MC²
Caduceus - Edition of 6. Neon, transformers, mirrored perspex.
The two neon heads in a state of perpetual absorption and interrelationship generate the Caduceus symbol. Originally representative as the messenger of the Earth Mother some 6000 years ago, the Caduceus has since become a sign of friendship, peace, negotiation and symbol for alchemy and transformative powers carried by the God Mercury as his staff to represent movement, fluidity and flux. In ancient China, mercury was thought to prolong life and the alchemists of the early modern period believed that gold could be produced by varying the quality and quantity of sulphur contained in mercury.
More recently Clendenon discovered a centuries-old library in India where he found diagrams of mercury vortex engines, the Caduceus he believed was an ancient symbol of electromagnetic flight and cosmic energy.
E=MC² - Materials: Neon, perspex, mirror, transformers.
E=MC² represents energy in constant flux, it explores how consciousness flows or emanates from one person to another and questions the idea of consciousness, an invisible force relative to spirit or ether, the space between particles.
Ether=Matter x Consciousness²
The work uses reflection and shadow to evoke multi dimensional layering. The neon tubes that are unlit become reflective surfaces to the lit tubes creating a palette of pastel shades, not normally seen in neon.
Biography
Dianne Harris is an international new media Artist and founding Director and Curator of Kinetica Museum which specialises in kinetic, electronic & new media art. Dianne has exhibited nationally and internationally over the past 20 years and her work is collected privately and commissioned. Her works are included in the temporary & permanent collections of; Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, Science Museum London, Taipai National Museum of Science Taiwan, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology Cambridge, Kinetica Museum London, Canary Wharf, Sketch London, British Council and in many galleries and private collections throughout UK, Europe and America. She has curated over 20 major exhibitions for Kinetica from 2006 – 2024 including the annual Kinetica Museum feature exhibitions at Kinetica Art Fair (2009 – 2014).
In 2003 – 2004, Dianne opened a gallery in Westbourne Studios ‘The Luminaries’ which was the first kinetic and interactive gallery space in London, which became the forerunner to Kinetica Museum. Dianne has also collaborated on many installations and new commissions with digital art, audiovisual and music groups; Hex, Hexstatic, Coldcut, Future Sound of London and the Amorphous Androgynous. In 1991 when Dianne was at St Martins School of Art, she and Matthew Slotover co-founded Frieze magazine.
For more of Dianne’s work find her on instagram @dianneharrisart
