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David Harrison

David Harrison

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    View works. David Harrison, Velvet Goldmine, 2002
    Velvet Goldmine, 2002
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    David Harrison’s paintings, drawings and sculptures present a world where the natural and supernatural go hand in hand. Harrison's works expand the languages of contemporary painting and sculpture, drawing into play parts of the culture which are often forgotten, buried, discarded or disregarded. The artist employs all that has lain outside of the mainstream of modern art – age-old symbols and fanciful myth, irrational beliefs, traditional genres like landscape, exuberant sexuality, barbed wit, and wonder at the natural world – in order to speak vividly about our own time, and to revivify the disciplines of painting and sculpture. 

    Harrison’s paintings give shape to a complete imaginative universe akin to those of earlier Romantic visionaries, ripe with references to the natural world and populated by a cast of animals and figures drawn from myths, legends, modern-day politics and from his own biography. While human presence is often revealed to be ignorant, frivolous or destructive, animal and plant life represents good sense and eternal knowledge.

     

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  • Selected Works

    David Harrison, Cernunnos Kills the Huntsman, 2025 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, Chance Meeting, 2021 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, Flowers of Evil, The Congregation, 2015 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, Flowers of Evil, Enchanter's Nightshade, 2015 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, Flowers of Evil, Parson in the Pulpit, 2014 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, You Can't Kill Me, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, Blue Hare, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, Business Trip, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, St Francis of the Motorway (Saints & Sinners), 2012 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, Jewels of the Hedgerow, 2009 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, Green and Pleasant Land (An English Country Stream), 2008 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, The Calling of Friends, 2007 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, Spectre Lady at Home, 2007 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    David Harrison, Cernunnos Kills the Huntsman, 2025
  • Biography
    View works. David Harrison, Velvet Goldmine, 2002
    Velvet Goldmine, 2002
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    Born in 1954, David Harrison lives and works in London. Harrison's works have been exhibited at venues including Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK (2019); Royal Academy of Art, London, UK (2019); Lungley Gallery, London, UK (2018); Churchgate Gallery, Somerset, UK (2017); Sargent's Daughters, New York, USA (2016), TRAMPS, London, UK (2017, 2014); VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin, Germany (2012); Vilma Gold, London, UK (2012, 2003); Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, USA (2008); Galeria OMR, Mexico City (2007); the Arts Centre St. Petersburg, Florida (2005); Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (2005); The Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2006, 2004); Whitechapel Project Space, London, UK (2004, 2003); Bloomberg Space, London, UK (2004), and Cubitt Gallery, London, UK (2001).

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  • News
    • David Harrison features in Common Ground at The Wilson, Cheltenham

      David Harrison features in Common Ground at The Wilson, Cheltenham

      February 21, 2025
      Curated by painter and folklorist Ben Edge, the exhibition (on view until 31 August 2025) invites visitors to explore stories of change, loss, rebellion, and...
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    • David Harrison features in Dog Show at Thames-Side Studios Gallery

      David Harrison features in Dog Show at Thames-Side Studios Gallery

      March 17, 2023
      'In almost every culture, dogs have been drawn, painted and sculpted since the dawn of history, often symbolising: companionship, loyalty, fidelity, protection, devotion and love.'...
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    • Paintings by David Harrison are included in Dog Show at Southwark Park Galleries

      Paintings by David Harrison are included in Dog Show at Southwark Park Galleries

      June 18, 2019
      An exhibition (18 July–8 September 2019) of dog-related artworks by David Harrison, Joan Jonas, Martin Creed, Lucian Freud, William Wegman, David Shrigley and others. Read...
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    • Dancing Goddesses, featuring David Harrison, at Dio Horia, Mykonos

      Dancing Goddesses, featuring David Harrison, at Dio Horia, Mykonos

      May 21, 2018
      May 27 - July 20 Participating artists: Carlos Betancourt | Katherine Bradford | Sam Friedman | Hulda Guzman | David Harrison | Nir Hod |...
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    • David Harrison curates The Lore of the Land at Churchgate Gallery, Porlock

      David Harrison curates The Lore of the Land at Churchgate Gallery, Porlock

      April 12, 2018
      The exhibition (30 April – 30 May 2018) brings together artists including Anne Ryan, Abigail Lane, Peter Doig, Ross Taylor and Nicky Hoberman, who have...
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    • David Harrison in Sawdust and Sequins: The Art of the Circus

      David Harrison in Sawdust and Sequins: The Art of the Circus

      March 24, 2018
      The exhibition (24 March – 3 June 2018) at the Royal West of England Academy also features work by Sir Peter Blake, Abigail Lane and...
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    • David Harrison in Frivolous Convulsions at Turf Projects, Croydon

      David Harrison in Frivolous Convulsions at Turf Projects, Croydon

      January 12, 2018
      Frivolous Convulsions is an exhibition (12 January – 25 February 2018) which collides carnivalesque and celebratory renditions of modern life. Aliki Krikidi // Babette Semmer...
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    • David Harrison: Photographs at Tramps

      David Harrison: Photographs at Tramps

      April 3, 2017
      David Harrison Photographs 7 April - 27 May 2017 Opening Reception April 6, 7 - 9pm TRAMPS 15f Micawber Street London N1 7TB Read more
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    • David Harrison in People at The Beaumont Gallery, Mere

      David Harrison in People at The Beaumont Gallery, Mere

      October 22, 2016
      An exhibition of Contemporary Portraiture by nine artists ​October 22nd - November 6th Tuesday - Sunday 10am-4pm The Beaumont Gallery in Mere hosts People ,...
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    • David Harrison: Nightshift at Sargent's Daughters, New York

      David Harrison: Nightshift at Sargent's Daughters, New York

      August 31, 2016
      16 September - 30 October Sargent’s Daughters is pleased to present Nightshift , an exhibition of paintings by English artist David Harrison. The exhibition will...
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    • How we met: David Harrison & Lucinda Lambton in The Independent

      How we met: David Harrison & Lucinda Lambton in The Independent

      November 29, 2015
      David Harrison & Lucinda Lambton: 'She came to my council flat and I nearly killed her with a leopard-skin sofa'. By Adam Jacques. The duo...
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    • David Harrison interviewed in Time Out

      David Harrison interviewed in Time Out

      November 11, 2015
      David Harrison: 'I wonder where the ghosts are going to live in the future'. By Martin Coomer. Fairies, spookiness, sex and nature, sex in nature…...
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  • Gallery Exhibitions
    • House Work

      House Work

      25 Jan – 18 Mar 2017 Victoria Miro Mayfair
      Including Mamma Andersson, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, Marc Chagall, Peter Doig, Adrian Ghenie, David Harrison, Karen Kilimnik, John Kørner, LS Lowry, Alice Neel, Celia Paul, Grayson Perry, Tal R,...
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    • David Harrison: Flowers of Evil

      David Harrison: Flowers of Evil

      14 Nov – 18 Dec 2015 London Gallery I
      In David Harrison’s third solo show with the gallery, a selection of new work presents a densely populated and fully realised universe, where the supernatural pull of the natural world...
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    • In the Company of Alice

      In the Company of Alice

      22 Jun – 30 Jul 2010 London Gallery I
      'If you do not solve your painting problem in painting human beings, you do not solve it at all'. Gertrude Stein Hernan Bas, John Currin, Verne Dawson, Peter Doig, Marlene...
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    • David Harrison: Existence

      David Harrison: Existence

      3 – 26 Sep 2009 London Gallery I
      David Harrison's paintings, sculptures and collages make strange our relationship to the natural world. Harrison makes use of a multitude of materials and techniques, whether they be found materials or...
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    • David Harrison

      David Harrison

      23 Mar – 23 Apr 2005 London Gallery I
      David Harrison is an artist attracted to the day-to-day oddities that are often overlooked by most people. His paintings are populated by fantastical characters and wildlife placed in eerie, otherworldly...
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