Standpoint presents a solo exhibition of new work by Harriet Bowman (b.1990, N. Devon), winner of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2024/25.
Harriet Bowman’s practice is multi-faceted, making sculpture through an intensive process of learning, testing and experimentation. She examines the vulnerability of the body in relation to materials and the bodies of others within the processes of production.
‘Slow Puncture’ presents a new series of sculptures developed over the past year as the 22nd winner of the leading UK Award for emerging sculptors. In this new work, Bowman explores language, industry and secondary use of materials through a range of media, including glass, metal, rubber and ceramics.
Her process investigates materials and by spending time in places of industry Bowman embeds herself to better understand their behaviours and transmutations. An intimate understanding of her materials’ cycles focuses our attention on events taking place below the surface.
Bowman has been looking closely at tyre production, investigating what happens next, where the material goes, and finding they become playground surfaces to absorb falls or when shipped overseas become breeding grounds for mosquitoes, who lay their eggs in the stagnant water collected within the doughnuts.
