Viewing Harmony: Jame St Findlay at Perrotin London

Harmony is a major new commission by young Scottish artist Jame St Findlay, the winner of the £30,000 2024 Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize. St Findlay was unanimously selected by judges Ryan Gander RA and Oona Grimes RA.

The exhibition explores the subtle ways systems, services and routines shape our lives and the unease that comes with them. Installed at Perrotin London, the refurbished, expansive gallery space at Claridge’s, are new installations – such as a work incorporating filing boxes, suit jackets and other visual tropes symbolising corporate order. Yet as is often the case in St Findlay’s work, what first appears harmonious and optimised slowly reveals cracks, exposing the psychological toll of productivity, surveillance – the control is all an illusion.

St Findlay’s work has previously been exhibited at Camden Arts Centre, with a recent solo presentation at Gathering, London (2024), but this debut at Perrotin marks their most ambitious commission to date.