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Cornesha Harris

Cornesha Harris

London, United Kingdom
UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE Royal College of Art
Title of Work Rituals of Belonging
SPECIALISMS Womenswear

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flora.mclean@rca.ac.uk

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Cornesha Harris is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice explores belonging, visibility, and multilocality through fashion, textiles, and moving image. She examines how identity is shaped through movement, memory, ritual, and the everyday acts that connect people across places. Her work considers how individuals carry traces of multiple locations, histories, and experiences, questioning fixed ideas of where belonging begins and ends. Harris reimagines culturally significant objects through a contemporary textile practice. Hair adornments, including beads, and inherited objects such as a family headscarf become material archives carrying histories of care, routine, and connection. Using objects that hold the physical and emotional traces of everyday life and transforming them into sculptural textiles and wearable forms, She explores how items that have crossed borders continue to evolve, carrying memories while acquiring new meanings within different environments. She proposes that ‘home’ is something embodied and continually created, through material culture, inherited behaviours, and lived experiences. Her work considers how belonging is expressed through the body and the rituals that shape daily life. By using familiar objects and textiles, she reveals how belonging is not only connected to where we come from, but also to what we carry, preserve, and reimagine. Supported by The Dr Louise Kiesling Scholarship.

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