Harriet Forster is a UK-born British-Australian artist living and working on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Bunurong people of the Eastern Kulin Nation, currently known as Melbourne. She organises with the Act on Climate Collective at Friends of the Earth, Melbourne and advocates for climate adaptation in Victoria. In her role, she facilitates drawing and mapping workshops for deepening engagement in environments. 

Harriet’s art practice is a combination of research, photography, drawing and video that weaves into installations investigating personal history and care for land. 

Harriet is in her first year of the Master’s of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of Arts and is a volunteer at Caves gallery, Naarm. She received a First Class Honours Degree from the Glasgow School of Art in 2024, an exchange semester at Emily Carr University in Vancouver in 2022 and a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at the Royal Drawing School in London in 2021.

Her work has been exhibited in Australia, the UK and Canada, and she completed a residency with the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Italy in 2023 and with descoverartists in Greece in 2022.

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Contact 13hforster@gmail.com

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(2024) Between the Art Blog, Harriet Forster: Walking and Drawing to Perceive and Create