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
2025 Cass Art Main Prize, short-listed
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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
In chests, nests and shells, Night Cafe, London UK, (upcoming)
2025
Lost for Words, Patrick Heide Gallery, curated by Anastasia Lebega, London UK
Face to Face, 8 Vine Yard, curated by Josephine-May Bailey, London, UK
Line Shifu and Bakery Shifu, Small-Time Project, London, UK
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
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
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.