Annette Harvest

Annette Harvest (born 1998) is an artist currently living and working in London. Having completed her BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2020, as well as an MFA in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Harvest’s practice speaks to globalism and investigates the untranslatability of universal human experience through oil painting, sculpture, and mixed media collage to transcend cultural relativism and form her own hermeneutical system of a pan-cultural ouroboros.

Harvest founded and coined the term “Country-Core” as a post-Dolly-Kei subculture—a methodology that embodies multiculturalism while seamlessly intertwining craftsmanship and art practice. In her graduate thesis, A Country-Core Attitude, and her most recent installation work, i love you 5000, she expands upon the concept, grounding it in the ideas set forth in the manifesto:

In an era of mass production and cookie-cutter trends, country-core does not emerge as a passive retreat into nostalgia, but as a deliberate and self-aware aesthetic movement. Maximalism is both our exterior language and our interior philosophy. We reject the notion that to assimilate, one must pare down; instead, we amplify our inner abundance outward. Each morning is an installation, each public outing a performance within the gallery of the streets. Country-Core is storytelling in fabric and form, a scholarly rebellion draped in beauty. We are folk-baroque, avant-garde folklorists - intentional and unapologetically ornate. We live as art, wearing our souls on the outside with pride.

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