Lavinia Harrington (b.1986)

Lives and works in London, UK

Education

2022 – 2024    MFA Painting, Distinction, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK

2009 – 2010    MA History of Art, AHRC Full Scholarship, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

2005 – 2008    BA History of Art, First Class Honours, University of Oxford, UK

Awards

2024            Chadwell Award, short-listed

2024       Audrey Wyckeham Prize for Painting, Slade

Solo & Duo Exhibitions

2025    Interplay, duo with Chloe Beddow, Chilli Arts Project, London, UK

2024    Lay my heart among sorrows and songs, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2025   

Face to Face, 8 Vine Yard, curated by Josephine-May Bailey, London, UK

Line Shifu and Bakery Shifu, Small-Time Project, London, UK

TEFAF, Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, Maastricht, Netherlands

On View, Gallery Rosenfeld, London, UK  

2024   

Fragments of Existence, Soho Revue, London, UK

The Wall is Never Innocent, Unless, Small-Time Project, London, UK

Soup, 10 Greatorex St, London, UK

2023   

Interim Showcase, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

Beauty in Individualism, Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, UK

In Between, Hew Hood Gallery, London, UK

2022   

I Felt That, Hackney Tubb curated by Josephine-May Bailey, London, UK

Talks

2025   

Colour and Dreams, Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VII

Artist Talk, Westminster School

2024   

Touch and Tactile Sensibility, The Slade School of Fine Art

In Conversation with Rilke’s Book of Hours, Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VI

Spineless Wonders: In Touch, a discussion between students at the Slade and the School of Art, Aberystwyth University

2023   

Feeling Colour, Colour & Poetry: A Symposium V, The Slade School of Fine Art

Teaching

 2012 – 2025    History of art: Lecturer, Course Director, Workshop Leader

Worked with over 20 schools across the UK. Taught onsite in museums across Italy and in Paris and London – incl. public tours for the National Gallery London.

Further details upon request.