Miss Lambe : Collage No. 9

£550.00

Found Imagery & Archival Papers Mounted onto Acid Free Board 2025

£550 Framed

Approx 33cm x 24cm

Mounted & Signed

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About the artist & exhibition: Lela Harris is an artist best known for her portraits often depicting those who have been overlooked or marginalised by history. These collages form a body of preparatory work for Harris’ new portrait of Miss Lambe, a character from Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon.

Harris’ collages centre around an imagined visit to Harewood by Miss Lambe in 1817. Using cut- outs from catalogues, postcards and archival photographs of Black Victorians and twentieth- century workers, Harris pieces together a vision of what this experience might have been like for a mixed-race woman, in a playful, empathetic way. Harris uses collage to build a picture of Austen’s character beyond the incomplete manuscript, rooted instead within the context
of Harewood and its complex histories and collections. In doing so, Harris bridges the gap between fact, fiction and historical imagination.

About the collection: Harris’ preparatory collages for her portrait of ‘Miss Lambe’ were exhibited alongside Austen’s original unfinished handwritten manuscript of ‘Sanditon’.

Each collage is signed and framed using museum quality Art Glass to eliminate reflections & glare and provide UV protection.

In 2026 the portrait of ‘Miss Lambe’ and a selection of 4 collages were acquired by the Harewood House Trust for their collection.

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Category: Collage