Lavinia Harrington (b.1986)

Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

Current

2022 – 2024      MFA Painting, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, UK

 Education

 2005 – 2008      BA History of Art, First Class Honours, University of Oxford, UK

 2009 – 2010      MA History of Art, AHRC Full Scholarship, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

Group Exhibitions

 2024                 Soup, 10 Greatorex St, London

 2023                 Slade Interim Showcase, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

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

In Between, Hew Hood Gallery, London, UK

Colour & Poetry, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK, Online

                        I Felt That, Hackney Tubb curated by Josephine-May Bailey, London, UK

2021                 About the House, 9 Percy Road, London, UK

Talks

 2024                 Touch and Tactile Sensibility, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

In Conversation with Rilke’s Book of Hours, Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VI, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

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, London, UK

Teaching experiences

2012 – 2022      History of art: Lecturer, Course Director, Workshop Leader and Course Content Creator. 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 (2018).

2014 – 2022      Creative Director, The Bigger Picture: Delivering and developing History of Art courses designed to improve access and inclusivity around arts education, visual critical analysis and creative thinking across the UK. For example: from 2015, I worked on a mentoring course in Cambridge between The Perse School and local primary schools: Colville and Kings Hedges. Ofsted reported the course as having ‘made a major impact on the achievements of pupils concerned’.