SUCCESSIONAL HORIZONS 2021

HOPES FOR UNITY 2018

CIRCUMSTANCE 2016

REFLECTIONS UPON 2018

UNTITLED 2013

CONTACT






CONTACT

Irish / Dutch. Lives and works in The Netherlands / United Kingdom

eamonnharnett@gmail.com

BIO

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Eamonn Harnett’s (1989) work comprises of sculpture, film, performance and installations. All underlying a wide array of questions concerning animist traditions, bioregional relationalities, cultural and biological hybridisation, craft practice, indigenous worldviews and queer identity. His work often focuses on the direct somatic and intimate relations with non-human life through a totemic quality of representation, imagining the possibilities these intimate confrontations evoke in how we reconnect to the larger biological ecosystem.

Most recently he has finalized a master in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College in Devon, United Kingdom (2019-2021). A course focused on alternative economic models which reflect on a cosmopolitan bioregionalism in a post-carbon world. Concepts such as pluriversal worldviews, grassroots movements, social justice, climate collapse and community resilience come to the fore. Recognizing that economies, societies, and the rest of the living world, are complex, radically interdependent and best understood through the lens of systems thinking.

Alongside his studies in Regenerative Economics and his artist practice, Harnett has been participating in alternative food growing movements in south-west Britain. Believing one of the most radical ways to participate at the intersection of nature versus culture is to grow food. He works for a small perennial vegetable nursery, and concerns himself with agroecology, food sovereignty and small-scale market gardening.

Most recent artist engagements have been a residency at Knockvologan Artist Residency, Scotland, UK (2021) and the group show Assemblages of Intimacy at A Tale of a Tub with Abbas Akhaven, Mikhail Karikis and Eric Peter, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2018).

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Eamonn Harnett (NL/IRL)

www.eamonnharnett.eu

EDUCATION

2019/2021 ~ MA Regenerative Economics, Schumacher College, UK (Tutors include Jason Hickel, Kate Raworth, Manda Scott, Jonathan Dawson and Andy Letcher)

2014/2016 ~ De Ateliers Amsterdam, NL (postgraduate residency program)

2008/2013 ~ BA Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL



RESIDENCIES AND RESEARCH PERIODS

2021 ~ Knockvologan, Scotland, UK (supported by Scottish Arts Council, UK)

2017 ~ Research period, The Philippines (supported by Mondriaan Fonds, NL)

2016/2017 ~ Research period i.c.w. Bon-Ga art space, Tehran and Va-artist residency Esfahan, Iran (supported by Mondriaan Fonds, NL)

2014 ~ Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, Friesland, NL



AWARDS, NOMINATIONS AND STIPENDS

2019 ~ Fundatie van Renswoude te Den Haag, study grant, NL

2019 ~ Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, study grant, NL

2019 ~ Stichting dr. Hendrik Muller Fonds, study grant, NL

2017 ~ Mondriaan Fund Young Talent Award, NL

2013 ~ Fine Arts Department Award, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, NL

2013 ~ Gerrit Rietveld Award, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, NL



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 ~ Circumstance, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL



SCREENINGS

2019 ~ Hopes for Unity, Self-Articulation and Sustainability of a Group, Anthro Screening Room, University of Amsterdam, NL



CURATORIAL

2018 ~ Assemblages of Intimacy (Guest curator, i.c.w. Suzanne Wallinga), A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 ~ Assemblages of Intimacy, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, NL (with Eamonn Harnett, Eric Peter, Mikhail Karikis, and Abbas Akhaven)

2018 ~ Prospect and Concepts, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, NL

2015 ~ Roger Hiorns, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Zwitserland (Collaborative ongoing video work / performance with

Roger Hiorns. part of ‘A Retrospective View of the Pathway’)

2015 ~ Up Close and Personal, De Hallen, Haarlem, NL (With Sven Augustijnen, Jo Baer, Rosa Barba, Thierry De Cordier, David Hammons, Dorota Jurczak, Hassan Khan, Meiro Koizumi, Steve McQueen, George Minne, Matt Stokes, Wolfgang Tillmans, Evelyn Taocheng Wang)

2014 ~ New Participants, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL

2014 ~ Hocus pocus, hoc est corpus, Thomas Kerk, Amsterdam, NL (with Mehraneh Atashi, Aapo Nikkanen and Smi Vukovic)

2014 ~ WinterSALON, Invitation by You Are Cordially Invited magazine, Amsterdam, NL

2014 ~ In Search of a Moral Ritual, Village church/Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL

2013 ~ (S)elected, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam, NL

2013 ~ Best of Graduates, RONMANDOS Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

2013 ~ Untitled, Gerrit Rietveld Graduation show, Amsterdam, NL



PUBLICATIONS

2022 ~ Rutger Emmelkamp, 'Rutger Emmelkamp & Miek Zwamborn', De Witte Raaf #216, March/April

2018 ~ Wijbrand Schaap, A Tale of a Tub: ‘Poëzie is een nieuwe manier om naar de wereld te kijken’, cultuurpersbureau.nl (Online exhibition review)

2018 ~ ‘Assemblages of Intimacy – A Tale of a Tub’, kunstblijfteenraadsel.nl

2018 ~ Nicole Sciarone, ‘Intimacy, perception and our surroundings, with Eamonn Harnett and Suzanne Wallinga’, metropolism.com

2015 ~ Chris Van der Kaap, ‘Nature Answers to no one, Eamonn Harnett’ Current Obsession magazine #04, Autumn-Winter

2014 ~ Spijksma, Judith. ‘In Search of a Moral Ritual, Jasper Griepink and Eamonn Harnett’ SYB review program

2013 ~ (Magazine interview) Mayhew, Alexander. ‘Rituelen delen’ (Sharing rituals), Eamonn Harnett’ Tubelight, # 89, Nov/Dec 2013



ARTISTS TALKS AND INTERVIEWS

2018 ~ Public interview, Poetry International, A tale of a tub, NL

2017 ~ VA art space, Esfahan, Iran

2013 ~ Public interview moderated by Wieteke van zeil, (S)elected, Castrum Peregrini, NL



RELATED ACTIVITIES

2021 / present ~ Assisting master basketry weaver Hilary Burns

2020 / present ~ Working for various agroecological projects such as market gardens, agroforestry systems and a perennial vegetable nursery in Devon, UK

2016 ~ Biophilia Masterclass, Artis Zoo/University of Amsterdam, NL

2015/16 ~ Assistant to artist Jo Baer

2013/2014 ~ Performer for Youth works by Roger Hiorns. Performed at The Hallen, Haarlem, the Netherlands. The Hepworth Wakefield Museum, Yorkshire, UK, CentrePasqArt, Biel, Switzerland and Annet Gelink, Art Basel, Zwitserland.