Icon of Saye ii (After Ofili)
10 x 7cm
Oil and spray paint on stretched oil paper.
2025
 
Taking a cue from the small-scale and iridescent hues of devotional icon paintings, my own ‘icons’use fluorescent spray-paint to imbue my every day, observational drawings, with a sense of reverence. This transcribes part of Chris Ofili’s mural‘requiem’, which memorialises those lost to Grenfel, including British photographer Khadija Saye.
 
 
Harriet Gillett is a painter working in London. She’s shown internationally/ been shortlisted for prizes/ held in cool collections blah blah blah. If you like what you see, her current solo exhibition is open at Maison Bertaux, London’s oldest patisserie, Soho; and YOU are most welcome to visit.