A Calvin Klein CK One Summer Daze fragrance bottle, orange in color, with a geometric shape and a screw-on cap.
A framed collage of various images, including black-and-white photographs of a man riding a bicycle, a comic strip with French text, a purple fire hydrant, a body of water with boats, and abstract yellow and blue patterns.
White T-shirt with a logo featuring a taco character and the text 'Keep Spreading Smiles!' hanging on a hanger.
Two women walking along a beach during sunset, with palm trees and a colorful sky.
Black notebook with a pastel-colored sticker that reads '99c DREAMS,' and handwritten text underneath.
Pop art depiction of a fire hydrant with a yellow and pink background.
Photograph of palm trees and a van on a beach at sunset, with a pale peach border and the text "Vans of Venice" by Harry Cartwright.
Silhouette of tall palm trees against a bright sky, with urban and beach scenery in the background.
A framed painting that appears to depict a beach scene with sand, water, and possibly some buildings or structures in the background, with a yellowish hue and a textured surface.
A painting of a car driving on a rural road with power lines, mountains, and a sunset in the background.
Book cover of 'tmrw' by Mac Miller featuring a young man with short hair and a beard, illuminated with pink and yellow lighting, with a shadowed silhouette of his head in the background.
The photo depicts a beach scene in Los Angeles with palm trees, people, and an amusement park in the background, with a reflection of young boys with skateboards in the foreground.
Reflective glass building with palm trees and a structure with columns visible in its reflection, against a blue sky.
Cartoon-style black text says "happy catboy" on a transparent background.

About

Studio Portrait, February 2026, photograph by Rory Rae

Harry Cartwright (b. 1993, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, photography, and film, currently living and working in Lisbon, Portugal.

Cartwright's compositions are cinematically stylised; borrowing the look and feel of the screen, the billboard, and the printed page and folding it back into handmade paintings on paper and canvas. The multi-layered works combine acrylic, watercolour, plaster, sand, photographic transfer, and found commercial imagery. The result is work that feels at once familiar and fabricated, as if lifted from a film still or a glossy magazine spread, yet made entirely by hand.

Soaked in warm, hazy light, his saturated palettes invoke the visual rhetoric of longing; the faded holiday photograph, the half-remembered drive, the advertisement for a life just out of reach. Everyday scenes are charged with atmosphere, where desire and memory seem to bleed into one another. Titles such as Burning Too Bright To Hold, Paraíso Distante, and The Way Back Home suggest an awareness that the perfect image is also always a kind of loss.

The artist received his MA Fine Art with Distinction from the City & Guilds of London Art School (2021) and has collaborated on projects with brands including Calvin Klein, Paul Smith, and Warner Music Group. His works have been exhibited and are held in collections internationally.

  • 2019-2021 MA, Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School (Distinction)

    2012-2015  BA (Hons), Advertising, University of the Creative Arts

    2011-2012 Foundation Diploma, University of the Creative Arts

  • May 2025 ‍ ‍‘Within These Walls’, DAM Lisbon, Portugal

    April 2024 ‘FRUITS AND THE SPIRIT’, Paul Smith, Mayfair, London

    May 2021 ‘THE SUN WILL COME’, Paul Smith, Borough Yards, London

    Dec 2017      ‘CARS’, Royal Albert Wharf, London

  • November 2025 Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Coletivo Amarelo Gallery, Germany

    February 2025 ‘OCEAN’, The Art Room, Lisbon, Portugal

    November 2024 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK

    June 2023 KCAW, Brushes With Greatness, London, UK

    November 2022 ‘Morning in the Burned House’, Lot Projects, London, UK

    October 2022 ‘Carry-On Baggage’, Galeria Augustine, Lisbon, Portugal

    December 2021 ‘Constant Stars’, The Violet Hour

    October 2019‍ ‍GIFC, House Of Vans, London, UK

    July 2019 Insider Art, Phillips, London, UK

    March 2019 The Other Art Fair, The Magic Box, Los Angeles, USA

    December 2018 GIFC, 0-0 LA, Los Angeles, USA

    March 2018                    The Other Art Fair, Majestic Downtown, Los Angeles, USA

  • Oct - Dec 2022 Hypha Studios x Mason & Fifth, London, UK

    Feb - April 2019              Eastside International, Los Angeles, USA

  • April 2022 Calvin Klein partners artist Harry Cartwright, TR Business (online)

    August 2021 A Private View with Maeve Doyle, Soho Radio Interview

    May 2021 Paul Smith Interview, Financial Times (print & online)

    May 2021 Paul Smith, Borough Yards, London Post (online)

    August 2020 100 DAYS, The Midnight Club (print)

    December 2017              CARS, FAD Magazine(online)

    December 2016              Mac Miller, TMRW Magazine (print)

    September 2015             Skateboarding in LA, HUCK Magazine (online)