Lucy Harrison is an artist based in London

Essay by Emma Cocker on Axis

Education

1997 - 1999 MA Fine Art (Printmaking) at the Royal College of Art, London
1994 - 1997 BA (Hons) Graphic Fine Art at Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury

Commissions and Residencies

2011
Light Up Your Street and Mapping Your Manor, two arts-led community engagement projects, commissioned by the Olympic Delivery Authority and supported by Arts Council England
Tate Local & Pembroke House, project working with Tate Modern's Community & Regeneration team at Pembroke House, Walworth
The Peninsula Papers, commission for Stream, Greenwich
Residency in Leysdown, Sheppey, commission for Art at the Centre, Swale

2010
The Buxhall Bee, Hackney Wick, commission for SPACE, London

2009
Poetry Machines, Saison Poetry Library, South Bank Centre, London

2008
Art On The Underground: The Stratford Grapevine
Residency at Lokaal 01, Antwerp
Re-design of Graves Gallery Youth Forum studio, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield

2007
Beacon Art Project, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
Canvey Guides as part of Art U Need; an Outdoor Revolution. Public art commission on Canvey Island, Essex managed by Commissions East and curated by Bob & Roberta Smith

2005
Residency at the former asylum on San Servolo Island, Venice

Selected Exhibitions

2011
The Tyranny of Grammar, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton

2010
Fourteen Interventions, Swedenborg House, London
The Absent Collector, as part of Bad Translation, Crate, Margate

2009
Remains, ICIA, University of Bath (solo)
Micro-Pages, touring to libraries in UK
Å Reise (to travel), Galleri VOX, Bergen
Reg Perfect and the Squeegees, Portman Gallery, London
This Was Now; the Russell Herron Collection, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
Poetry Machines, Saison Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London (solo)
Afterwards, curated by Sharon Kivland, Mead Gallery, Warwick

2008
Haunts, Outpost Gallery, Norwich (solo; included publication)
If You Build It They Will Come, G39, Cardiff
No Letters, Nettie Horn Gallery, London

2007
Hope and Despair, Cell Project Space, London
O Dreamland, Greatstone, Kent; Transition Gallery / Club Shepway
Paulo Post Futurum, Museum of Breda / Lokaal 01, Breda, Netherlands
Beverli Ils; Someone Had a Real Problem, Zelle Arte Contemporanea, Palermo, Sicily

2006
Peace Camp, Brick Lane Gallery, London
Lucy Harrison, Work 1999-2006, Michael West Gallery, Isle of Wight
Rag and Bone, Three Colts Gallery, London
Tres Riches Heures, Lokaal 01, Breda, Le BLAC, Brussels & Keith Talent Gallery, London
Deck of Cards, 39 Gallery, London

2005
La Cheba Dei Mati ('The Madmen's Cage'), San Servolo island, Venice, curated by Irene Calderoni (catalogue)
After the Fact, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle (with Thomas Demand, Emma Kay, Matt O'Dell, Abigail Reynolds, Jamie Shovlin, Martin Vincent; catalogue)
For and From, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, curated by Pete Fillingham
Carpet Slippers No Protection, George Rodger Gallery, Maidstone, Kent (publication)
Hanging Around, wall commission for Bookartbookshop / Richard Makin as part of '5131N 0005W'
Budget Bureau for Language and Applications, Centre d’art Contemporain, Geneva

2004
Pilot, Limehouse Town Hall, London
Family Sagas, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
13th International Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia (catalogue)
Handluggage, K3 Project Space, Zurich

2003
Please Take One, 39, London
A Reader, DomoBaal Contemporary Art, London (inc publication)

2002
x mistakes y for z, Rotermann Salt Storage Exhibition Hall, Tallinn, Estonia, and Kilpkonna Gallery, Viljandi, Estonia (catalogue, newspaper)
Lightbox, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury (CD-ROM catalogue)

2001
Never Look Here, Foyles Bookshop Gallery, London (with Christiane Baumgartner & Marilene Oliver)
Index, Stoke Newington Library, London
A Matter Of, curated by Les Buckingham, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
The Value of Straight Thinking, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast
More Jets to More Places, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

2000
New Contemporaries 2000, Milton Keynes Gallery, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (catalogue)
Fathom, The Study Gallery, Poole, Dorset
North East Open, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Anxious Words, curated by Sharon Kivland, Waterstones, Piccadilly
The Poster Show, Cabinet Gallery, London / Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York

1999
Limit Less, curated by Matthew Higgs, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Panoramic, Eagle Gallery, London
A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis, curated by Sharon Kivland, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London

1998
A to Z, curated by Matthew Higgs, The Approach, London
Forest, The Bull & Last, London (co-curated with Bob Matthews)
Pretty Vacant, Artezium, Luton
What Difference Does it Make?, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery
Dryll / Pistol, G39, Cardiff

Teaching

Currently employed as a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Print & Digital Media) at University for the Creative Arts at Canterbury (formerly KIAD).