Coral Harding (b. 2001, London) is a recent graduate from Slade School of Fine Art, London and gained her Art Foundation at Central Saint Martins. Harding's work explores the sensuality of memory, tradition and cultural experience in the forms of site-specific sculpture, drawing and painting. Employing materials used within ritual and commemoration, including cloves, willow branches and intricate metal objects Harding communicates the sensitivity and vulnerability of these materials through her presentation of their exposed and overwhelming sensory potential and tactility. Working with existing architectural features in the spaces within which she shows her work, Harding highlights specific structural details through her utilisation of the sensory. She explores the emotionally penetrative and reminiscent nature of smell and its ability to destabilise spatial boundaries. A lyricism between compression and diffusion, containment and expansion, architecture and atmosphere.
Recent exhibitions have included the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, selected by Anne Desmet RA (2024); Medienfrische Artist Residency, Boden, Austria ( 2024); Slade School of Fine Art Degree Show (2024); Bandham, (grp), The Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (2024); Bedrock, Group Exhibition, Crypt Gallery, INTERIM, Group Exhibition, Candid Arts Gallery, London; Dwelling (grp) Brent Cross Centre, London ( 2022); JUICEBOX - Group Exhibition, RuptureXIBIT, Kingston ( 2022); FISHTANK - Group Exhibition, Penarth Centre, Bermondsey ( 2022); 'Obscured' at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition ( 2021).