Harriet Gillett (b. 1995 East Yorkshire) is a London-based artist whose work explores the intersections of memory, emotion, and time through painting. She received her MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2022, following a BA in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh in 2017. She was shortlisted for the Ingram Prize in 2020 and selected for New Contemporaries in 2023. In 2024, she completed the Palazzo Monti Residency, and her debut solo exhibition opened at LAMB Gallery, London. Gillett’s recent exhibitions include shows at Brooke Benington, Roman Road, Delphian x Saatchi, Badr El Jundi Gallery, Tube Culture Hall, Melzi Fine Art, and duo presentations with Soho Revue and New Normal Projects. She currently has a solo opened at Maison Bertaux in Soho curated by Hotsheet.

Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge into a seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett seeks to slow down these rapid encounters through images of reverie. Drawing on the emotional vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional quality of Western religious iconography, she combines traditional subjects with contemporary materials to traverse multiple temporalities. Working primarily in oil and spray paint, she layers translucent veils of colour over fluorescent grounds that echo both gold leaf and a rose-tinted lens. Her paintings hover between memory and imagination, the personal and the universal—fluid, dreamlike meditations on identity and human connection that turn fleeting observations into sites of reflection and transformation.