Bianca Harrington is a multi-disciplinary artist from Melbourne Australia.
With a background in textiles, she had previously lived in London where she studied and worked as a Milliner. Working with London’s most prestigious milliners gave her a chance to observe and learn from others in their creative practice, seeding her own path to becoming an artist. It was through this experience that she refined her skills in combining and balancing texture, form and colour.
Relocating back to Melbourne she began taking lessons in botanical illustration. This formed the foundation for her work as an artist and she soon found a never ending appetite to express herself through the medium of paint, working from her imagination, intuition and inclination towards experimentation.
Merging scissors with paintbrush, her recent works combine her lifelong practice of skills to create work that possesses a characteristic sense of space with a highly textural hand, balancing both calm and playful qualities. Common themes in Bianca’s work portray simplified table scapes, botanicals and threads of folk symbolism.
Her work reveals subtle symbols arising from sparks of awe witnessed in day to day life, past travels or a museum trip. These small gestures mediate between painting and a lived experience around the imagery of one of life’s necessities; a glass of water.
Bianca’s work is held in private collections around the world.