Lavinia Harrington

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

Group Exhibitions

2026 In chests, nests and shells, Night Cafe, London UK

2026 A Place Between the Pines, Von Goetz, Oxfordshire, UK

2025 Lost for Words, Patrick Heide Gallery, curated by Anastasia Lebega, London UK

2025 Face to Face, 8 Vine Yard, curated by Josephine-May Bailey, London, UK

2025 Line Shifu and Bakery Shifu, Small-Time Project, London, UK

2025 On View, Gallery Rosenfeld, London, UK  

2024 Fragments of Existence, Soho Revue, London, UK

2024 The Wall is Never Innocent, Unless, Small-Time Project, London, UK

2024 Soup, 10 Greatorex St, London, UK

2023 Interim Graduate Show, The Slade School of Fine Art,London, UK

2023 Beauty in Individualism, Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London, UK

2023 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: Course Director, Lecturer, Workshop Leader

Worked with over 20 schools across the UK, leading and creating courses aimed at improving access and inclusivity around arts education. Delivered a course noted in a report by Ofsted as having ‘made a major impact on the achievements of pupils concerned’. Taught onsite in museums across Italy and in Paris and London – incl. public tours for the National Gallery London.

Further details and references upon request.