Harriet Hall was born in 1984 to Sally and Andy O’Grady in Kaitaia, New Zealand. She currently resides with her husband and fellow artist Lester Hall in Kerikeri. She spent her childhood and adolescence sailing the pacific and travelling abroad with her family, thereafter living in coastal towns around New Zealand, and favouring the wild west coast of New Zealand’s beautiful South Island.

Harriet studied Bachelor Of Fine Arts and received a Diploma Of Ceramic Art in Dunedin at the Dunedin Polytechnic School Of Art in 2005.

She has exhibited ceramics, paintings, drawing and jewellery in group exhibitions in Dunedin, Nelson, Wellington, New Plymouth and Auckland, and has worked as a makeup artist for dance companies, fashion editorials and shows.

Harriet is known for her flowing line work and fine detail. Using black pen, 6B pencil, oil paint and soft pastel she produces drawings and paintings characterised by sweeping gradients, dramatic contrast, burnished surfaces, intricate detail, and gracefully curved line and form.

Her art explores physical and psychological immersion with environment and divinity. She maintains her practice with a desire to witness and interpret unique existential qualities, to make and discover meaning, to allow herself through the process of creation and flow the opportunity to reflect deeply and to admire the essence of possibility and it’s ever expanding proximity.

Recurring themes in Harriet’s work include physical and psychological weather, wildness, freedom, balance, suspension, danger, movement, transformation, expansion, intimacy, power, vitality, abundance, the perfection of imperfection, and sensing the Ever Present.