Harry Wilkins (b.2004, Gloucester) lives and works in Plymouth where he is a current resident at KARST. Previously he has achieved MA and BA degrees in Fine Art from Bath Spa University, both completed with first class honours.
Harry Wilkins works across performance, video and installation, drawn to the overlooked and the incidental. His practice favours a reduced visual language: small, deft gestures that carry unexpected weight.
Informed by an enquiry into labour, precarity and the role of the artist, the work examines the interplay between care and neglect, holding a quiet sentimentality against a perverse ordinariness. A dry humour surfaces through absurd interventions, with a sensibility for objects and space.
Wilkins addresses failure, both as a means of production and a recurrent concern: the anticipation of potential collapse, things falling or held in suspension, objects as support structures. Accumulations of things swept to the edges persist by doing nothing.
Questions of temporality and attention run throughout the work, distilled into a sparse, deliberate poetry.
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Education
2025-2026 Bath Spa University- MA Fine Art (Fine Art specialised)
2022-2025 Bath Spa University– BA Fine Art (Graduated with First Class Honours)
2024 Staatliche Akademie Der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart. – Fine Art Printmaking (Semester exchange from Bath Spa University)
2020-2022 Gloucestershire College. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma— Art and Design Practice (Completed with 3 Distinction*)
Residencies
October 2026- April 2027 KARST Studio residency- Plymouth
Exhibitions
5-9 September 2026 Bath Spa University Postgraduate Degree Show 2026. Locksbrook, Bath.
9-27 May 2026 Play The Museum. The Holburne Museum, Bath.
27 June – 2 July 2025 SUMMIX. Centrespace Gallery, Bristol.
14-21 June 2025 Bath Spa University Undergraduate Degree Show 2025. Locksbrook, Bath.
10-17 May 2025 Edition 11 Printmaking Exhibition. 44AD Artspace, Bath.
14-27 February 2024 Izatt Shortman and Harry Wilkins. Michael Pennie Gallery, Bath.
Publications
September 2026 Bath Spa University Postgraduate Degree Show Spotlight
May 2025 a-n Degree Shows Guide 2025 (Page 37)
Collections
Zubrick is Sleeping, 2026 in Locksbrook Permanent Collection, Bath.
Outreach / Experience
September 2026 Visiting Guest Lecturer, Gloucestershire College
February – July 2026 National Saturday Club, Art & Design, Bath Spa University
July- August 2025 Bath Spa University Young Artists Summer School Program
Achievements
June 2025 Winner Outstanding Achievement of Fine Art Graduates 2025- Bath Spa University