Harriet Hall was born in 1984 as Sophie Harriet O’Grady to Sally and Andy O’Grady in Kaitaia, New Zealand. She currently resides with her husband and fellow artist Lester Hall in Kerikeri, after decades sailing the pacific with her family, living in coastal towns around New Zealand, and favouring the wild west coast.

Harriet studied Bachelor Of Fine Arts and received a Diploma Of Ceramic Art in Dunedin at the Dunedin Polytechnic School Of Art in 2005.

She has exhibited ceramics, paintings, drawing and jewellery in group exhibitions throughout New Zealand and worked as a makeup artist for contemporary dance companies, fashion editorials and shows..

Harriet is known for her flowing line work and fine detail. Her art explores physical and psychological immersion with environment and divinity.

Using black pen, 6B pencil, oil paint and soft pastel Harriet produces drawings characterised by sweeping gradients, dramatic contrast, burnished surfaces, intricately detailed areas, and curved line and form.

Harriet maintains her practice with a desire to witness and interpret unique existential qualities, to make and discover meaning, to allow herself through the process of creation and flow the opportunity to reflect deeply and to admire the essence of possibility and it’s ever expanding proximity.

Reoccurring themes and motifs in Harriet’s work include physical and psychological weather, wellness, wildness, suspension, balance, danger, freedom, movement, transformation, expansion, extension, irregularity, intimacy, power, peace, vitality, abundance, the perfection of imperfection, and the Ever Present.