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Rose Electra Harris

@roseelectraharris

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MA @rca_painting ‘26
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Ibex, 2026
Pumice, acrylic, oil and pigment stick on canvas
180 x 160 cm

RCA DEGREE SHOW SOON >>> 18th - 21st June <<<
ALL WELCOME
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@rca_painting by @roseelectraharris

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4 months ago

Dual Nature 2026
Pigment, dispersion, acrylic, marble dust, charcoal and oil on canvas
200 x 160 cm taken in Royal College of Art by @roseelectraharris

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5 months ago

No resistance
Oil, acrylic and pumice on canvas
200 x 190 cm

Our degree show is OPEN. Thank you to all who have visited so far. The show is open until Sunday. Please come visit - there is so much incredible work to see and amazing artists to meet.

12-8pm Friday
12-6pm Saturday & Sunday

This painting was a breakthrough for me. So including it as my degree show piece feels important.

I’ve been focusing on restless interactions in my paintings, between control and chaos, impulse and reason, freedom and constraint, the organic and the structured.

Nature is still very important in my practice and although not directly represented, it remains a consoling presence.

Since studying at the RCA, I’ve become more accepting of the importance of not knowing. For years I’ve been desperate to fully understand what my work is about. But I want my work to remain open, and this has allowed me to push my practice in new directions, continuously experimenting and embracing a new sense of freedom.

Come to the show ! I will be there every day 🌞 taken in Royal College of Art by @roseelectraharris

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Ingram Prize × LAF
Alumni Interview - Rose Electra Harris

My main motivation for applying was feeling more confident in my practice & interest in how it would be viewed by the panel. I’d recently completed the Turps Correspondence Course (great btw) & the prize felt like a supportive opportunity for emerging artists. I wanted to keep momentum up, plus I knew & respected a lot of the artists that were shortlisted before.

You get accustomed to rejection, so [being shortlisted] was a major confidence boost. I’d been developing my work quietly, completing an artist residency 6 months prior. Being recognised when you put yourself out there feels really good.

Exhibiting at London Art Fair was an exciting surprise as it was something new for Ingram Prize finalists. I was reunited with old friend & fellow finalist, Hester Finch, for a duo presentation. It means a lot to show my work in person rather than online, as there is so much you lose digitally. You never know who might see the work and connect to it. Jo [Baring], Hester & I held a talk in the VIP lounge at the Fair & it started three new relationships - all of which are important to me still.

I was introduced to three curators, all of whom visited my studio after the Fair. I was put forward for a LAF prize the next year in collaboration with Visit Tampa Bay, which I won. I got to fly to Tampa Bay to experience the history & culture, & paint a 9m x 3m installation; I’d never painted a mural or anything that size! I find unexpected challenges inspiring & stimulating for my practice. The Ingram Prize organised events for those shortlisted; we had a whole day of talks to help our careers, including talks by Julie Lomax from a-n & art critic, Tabish Khan.

I’m coming to the end of my MA at the RCA, which I’ve loved. For years I’d been craving that sort of environment; I wanted to be around other artists & challenge my ideas on a deeper level. My work has developed & I’m embracing the uncertainty that is key to my practice. Being shortlisted for the Ingram Prize almost certainly gave me more confidence to apply to the RCA.

Don’t overthink it. Apply!

#IngramPrize2026
Interview: Hannah Payne by @roseelectraharris

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Drawings drawings

@rca_painting by @roseelectraharris

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3 months ago

‘London Writes Itself’ - a group exhibition at @lbfcontemporary featuring many fellow RCA artists. And they are all brilliant!

Thank you to Louis and Maria at LBF for putting together this show and thank you to all those who came to the opening last week. The show continues until the 8th August.

Humming Restlessness
200 x 160
Oil, acrylic, pigment stick and pumice on canvas.

A favourite painting made this year on @rca_painting 💚 taken in LBF Contemporary by @roseelectraharris

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3 months ago

S’crazy June !

So fun, so exhausting. A LOT!

Thank you to all who visited our degree show. In the heat too - it meant so so so much!

And thanks to my brilliant degree show room - everyone so kind and relaxed and supportive - you are all phenomenally great. And to all the other amazing pals ! Feeling sad it’s nearly over 🥺 taken in Royal College of Art by @roseelectraharris

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Cascading, 2026
Pigment, rabbit skin glue and oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm

A small guy for a change.

Degree show now hung and almost ready for opening next week. Really really excited !

@rca_painting 💙 taken in Royal College of Art by @roseelectraharris

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4 months ago

Cannot believe it’s Term 3 at @rca_painting ! Degree show next month but here are some snippets of the last two terms. An absolute rollercoaster.

Thanks to all the painting pals and support and new amazing friendships 💘 taken in Royal College of Art by @roseelectraharris

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5 months ago

Refuge 2025-26
Oil and pastel on canvas
180 x 160 cm

A painting from term 1 at @rca_painting 💫 taken in RCA Painting by @roseelectraharris

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6 months ago

Humming Restlessness 2026
Pumice oil acrylic and pigment stick on canvas
200 x 160 cm

Having the best time at the @rca_painting 💚 taken in Rca Battersea by @roseelectraharris

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Introducing Rose Electra Harris @roseelectraharris (b. 1991), a British artist living and working in London. She has a BA in Printmaking from The University of Brighton.

Rose’s painting practice emerges through restless interactions, between control and chaos, impulse and reason, freedom and constraint, the organic and the structured. Moving between figuration and abstraction her work resists resolution.

She reimagines space, not as something fixed, but as something shifting, unstable, and continually unfolding. Nature acts as a consoling presence, not directly represented but always considered.

Rose embraces uncertainty, where not knowing becomes essential. There is a simultaneous search for meaning and resistance for closure. She wants the work to remain open, letting indeterminacy take its course. Within this, the paintings become spaces of freedom: a release of energy, urgency, and frustration, where feeling takes precedence over figuration.

Artwork list:
1. Humming Restlessness, 2026. Pumice, acrylic, oil and pigment stick on canvas, 200 x 160 cm

2. Dual Nature, 2026. Pigment, dispersion, marble dust and oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm

3. Selection of ink drawings on paper

4. Humming Restlessness (Detail) by @roseelectraharris

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