About

Harri Hudspith is an artist-researcher whose practice explores the cultural and intellectual entanglement of Christianity and our ideas of the mind/soul, body, sex, and language. They received a PhD from the University of Bristol in 2023 in which their research explored how an emulative, embodied, and practice-led approach could develop a closer understanding of the psychological role of language, word, and image in the mysticism of St Teresa of Avila. They received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Winchester School of Art in 2017, and a Master of Research in Fine Art and Humanities from the Royal College of Art in 2018. They have recently been selected for a 2024 Javier and Marta Villavecchia Fellowship at the Haas Library – Centre for Aesthetics, Religion, and Contemporary Culture at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). 

Other pieces and work-in-progress can be found at @harrihudspith

CV

Selected Exhibitions

Shape | The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow | Jun 2023
Snappy Title | Winchester School of Art | Jun 2023
Reframing Recollection | Burdalls Yard, Bath | Feb – Mar 2023 *solo 

Getting Into Her Habit | St James Priory, Bristol | Mar -Apr 2022 *solo
A Quintessence of Consciousness | Royal College of Art | Apr 2020 

Hildegard of Bingen: Mystic Body | Nunnery Gallery, London | Apr 2020/tbc.

Master of Research | Royal College of Art, London | Sep 2018 

Pass-the-Parcel | Studio RCA, London | Apr 2018

WiP | Royal College of Art, London | Jan 2018
Post 3587 | Old Truman Brewery, London | Jul 2017
Annihilation Event | Letharby Gallery, Central St Martins | Mar 2017 

ChARTism | University of Southampton | Feb 2017
Annihilation Event/Prototype | Switch House, Tate Modern | Jan 2017

Presentations and Performances

My Favourite Mystic | Podcast | Jan 2023 Episode 49: Harri Hudspith on Teresa of Avila

Passions and the Mystical. Between Affecting and Being Affected (conference) | Mystical Theology Network, University Nijmegen | December 2022
Paper title: Getting into Her Habit: Recogimiento, Art Practice, and Mystical Research.

What makes a Pilgrim a Pilgrim? (conference) | Manchester Metropolitan University |July 2022
Paper title: Teresa of Avila and the “camino brumador” of the soul: a language of pilgrimage or a pilgrimage of language?

Thinking Methodologically: Creative Arts practice and academic research (round table) | St James Priory | Apr 2022

Joint Southwest Religion and Theology Conferences | Universities of Bristol/Exeter (online) | Jun 2023, Apr 2021, Apr 2020
Paper titles: ‘The most virile of monks’: sex and spiritual transformation in Teresa of Avila’s mystical writing (2023); Made, or Making, (in) the Image: towards a map of Teresa of Avila’s soul (2021); Getting into her Habit/Practice-to-Practice: An Emulative Exploration of Teresian Language (2020).

Catherine of Siena and Teresa of Avila, Doctors, Dialogues, Directions: An International Virtual Symposium | University of Calgary | Nov 2020
Paper title: Getting into Her Habit/Practice-to-Practice: An Emulative Exploration of Teresian Language.

Letters to Saints (seminar) | University of Calgary | Nov 2020
RCA Alumni Interview |Royal College of Art (online)| Oct 2019 

Deconstruction as Method (conference) | Royal College of Art, London | Sep 2018

The Way of Perfection (seminar) | Studio RCA | Apr 2018

Publications

Hudspith, H. “Hacer esta ficción,” PROVA 4 (2018).

Hudspith, H. Getting Into Her Habit. Bristol, 2022.

Residencies

The Object of Research | University of Cumbria, Carlisle | Jul 2018 

Disorder | Chisenhale Gallery, London | Mar 2018