b. 1970, United Kingdom
Having struggled with the confines of galleries and studio Mhairi Vari has developed an expanded art practice in site-specific installation making work for locations ranging from: agricultural barns to the damp cellars of a Georgian town house; from the oldest building in Hackney to the King William Court in the Old Royal Naval College. Mhairi is the only artist ever to have installed work on the iconic Lloyds Building for ‘Sculpture in the City’, have placed a sculpture within the Economist Plaza, Picadilly, and for Coventry Biennial made work that entwined its way through multiple sites: an old shopping arcade, the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, and a redundant NHS drugs rehabilitation centre.
She has a geeky interest in industrial heritage and the seeking of new meaning in these once functional sites.