Born in the USA, Haggarty gained her MFA from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011 and now lives and works in New York. She has hosted many solo exhibitions, featured in several magazines and podcasts, and
currently holds a number of American university lectureships.
Haggarty’s paintings are profoundly personal and intimate, featuring the places where she walks, sleeps and dreams. Her practice in painting and drawing plays on referential and iterative form and space, relating to the
various modes of drawing. Drawing on the confluence of light sources and multiple simultaneous perspectives, her work collapses space and time, opening up the possibility of multiple, equally valid interpretations.
For Haggarty, homecoming is what T. S. Eliot called, in the Four Quartets (1943) “the still point of the turning world”, the anchor and lodestar of life: “Homecoming means comfort. The two works show how drawing plays a role in my everyday life and my decision making. Drawing for me is a source of comfort and something I did early on – in the home I grew up in.”
