Gabi Harris is a French-Australian contemporary jewellery artist currently based in South-East Queensland. With a photographic background informing her metalsmithing practice, she investigates the materiality of light’s meeting point with textured surfaces. Her work interacts with its location and is viewed differently dependent on position and angles of reflection, exposing the visual dialogue between object and environment.

Through process-based exploration Gabi lets materials speak to her and manipulates them intuitively, following a progression in ideas. She instinctively prioritises purity of form and balance of elements, legacies from her photography practice. Playing with ambiguity of material and subject matter resonates deeply, leading her work to straddle the boundary between what you see and what could be other things. She often uses a subdued colour palette, juxtaposing contrasting textures altered by the effects of light, as a means to create depth and convey emotion.

Continually experimenting with different techniques and materials, manipulating their inherent properties, she has developed a strong abstracted aesthetic combining biomorphic and geometric elements.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

May 2024 - Both Sides of Here, Project Gallery, South Bank QLD

Apr 2024 - Conscious Adornment, Grey Street Gallery, South Bank QLD

Oct 2023 - Flow - JMGQ Member Exhibition, Impress Gallery Wooloowin, Brisbane QLD

Jun 2023 - Aerobia, Brisbane Institute of Art, Windsor QLD

Dec 2022 - QCA Collective Origins 15, Grey Street Gallery, South Bank QLD

Jun 2022 - Remagine Art Prize Exhibition 2022, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre, Hornsby NSW

AWARDS

Finalist Remagine Art Prize 2022, Hornsby NSW

OTHER

Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia, Queensland (JMGQ) - Treasurer