Geoffrey Harrison (b.1974 UK)
Education
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - MA Japanese Studies - 2009
Hull School of Art and Design - BA Fine Art, Printmaking - 1996
Stockport College - Foundation, Art and Design - 1993
Solo Exhibition / Projects
2024 – BS5 Art Trail, Bristol
2022 – Open House Bristol
2021 – Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week, Facebook and Sky Arts TV
2021 - 100 Beardy Baldies - Drawing Project
2021 – The Big Studio Sale - Great Ormond Street, London
2016 - 'portrait' - Bloomsbury Festival, London
2014 - March 2015 - 'me . complete . you' - The End is Near Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY.
2014 - Open Studio - Royal Veterinary College, Camden, London
2013 – 'me . complete . you' - Barts Pathology Museum, Smithfield, London
2012 – 'Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men' - Museum of London, City of London
2011 – Art Cycle Art – Internet media art and cycle documentary project. London to Land's End
2010 – 'Autopoiesis' - Chapel of Rest, St George’s Gardens, Camden, London
2010 – 'Konseki' - School of Oriental and African Studies, Bloomsbury, London
2010 – 'In the Midst of Life' - The Art Workers Guild, Holborn, London
2009 – ‘Islands’ - Stone Theatre, Southwark, London
Selected Group Exhibition / Projects
2024 – British Art Prize - OXO Tower Gallery, London
2024 – Visceral Beauty – Shoreditch Modern, London
2024 – Behind the Artist Art Prize
2024 - Contemporary British Portrait Painters - Department Store, Brixton, London
2024 - Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Award - Birmingham
2023 – Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral
2023 – Green & Stone Summer Exhibition, London
2023 – NEAC – Mall Galleries, London
2022 - Contemporary British Portrait Painters - Department Store, Brixton, London
2022 – ‘Sequested’ Self Portrait Art Prize - Winner
2021 - Sky Portrait Artist of the Year exhibition - Compton Verney, Warwickshire
2021 - Contemporary British Portrait Painters - Cass Art, Islington, London
2021 - Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries London
2021 - Cambridge Invitational Exhibition, Castle Fine Art, Cambridge
2020 - Portraits for NHS Heroes - Art Book, published by Bloomsbury
2020 - Royal Society of Portrait Painters - Mall Galleries, London
2019 - Royal Birmingham Society of Artists - Birmingham
2018 – People’s Portrait Project – Oliver Spencer, London
2018 – Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries, London
2018 – People’s Portrait Project, Building Centre, London
2018 – Creekside – Deptford X, London
2018 – Recordless Release - Bar Babette, Berlin, Germany
2018 – Sky Portrait Artist of the Year Exhibition - Clarendon Fine Art, London
2017 – Portraits at Virgin Money Lounge – Piccadilly, London
2017 - Skeletons, Stories & Social Bodies Conference - University of Southampton
2016 – Bloomsbury Festival - People’s Portrait Project - London
2016 - Modern Panic VII – Bethnal Green, London
2016 – LCS Festival – People’s Portrait Project, Lamb’s Conduit Street, London
2015 – ‘Project After Birth’ - White Moose Gallery, Barnstaple, Devon.
2015 – ‘Recordless Release Party’ – Echo Echo, Berlin, Germany.
2015 – ‘A Call for Drawings’ BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands
2015 – 'Fabrica Vitae' - Saint Louis University, MO
2015 – ‘Fabrica Vitae’ - Emory Health Sciences Museum, Atlanta, GA.
2014 - 'The Brain' - New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York, NY.
2014 - 'One Health, One Art' - Royal College of Pathologists, London
2014 – ‘Fabrica-Vitae’ – International Touring Exhibition – Zakynthos, London, Berlin, Gdansk, Basel, Ghent, Riga
2014 – ‘The Body is the Instrument of the Soul’ - The Old Operating Theatre, London
2013 – 'Art & Science' - The Point Gallery, Doncaster
2013 – 'Anatomy for Life' - Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton
2013 – 'Anatomical Snuffbox' – Pup-Up Shop, Bethnal Green, London
2012 – 'Therianthropy' - Barts Pathology Museum, Smithfield, London
2011 – 'Two to the Power Ten' - Orange Dot Gallery, Bloomsbury, London
2010 – ‘Creekside Artists’ - A-Block Gallery Space, Deptford, London
2010 – 'Alturnative 100' Journals Project - Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
2010 – ‘Creekside Artists’ - Limelight Gallery, Lewisham, London
2009 – ‘Underdog Artists’ - UDAC Gallery, Southwark, London
Collections
Private collections: UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Japan & Singapore
Public Collections:
- Soho House Collection
- Royal Veterinary College, University of London
- Camden Town Hall, London – Portrait of Mayor Jonathan Simpson (loan to Mayor’s Parlour)
Awards and Prizes
Sequested Art Prize - 2022 Winner
Cass Art Award - Cambridge Invitational 2021
ACT Award – 2014
Leverhulme Trust Award - 2013
Shortlisted (final 5) for Bulldog Bursary, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 2012
Media
- @Londonartcritic - Tabish Khan - August 2024
- London Live TV – featured artist in Shoreditch Modern Exhibition – August 2024
- Behind the Artist – Sophie Skelton - Artist’s Interview – March 2023
- Ministry Of Art Podcast - Gary Mansfield - May 2021
- London City Nights - James, David: “'One Health, One Art' at the RCP”, 26th September 2014
- B@S, Sheerin - Mark: ‘Geoffrey Harrison and the Art of Pathology’, 2nd May 2014
- Art and Science Journal - Hamilton, Lea: ‘Q&A with Geoffrey Harrison’, April 2014
- Veterinary Record: ‘Art and Science in Veterinary Education’, p38 11th January 2014
- THE: Campus Roundup ‘Animal Artistry’ Times Higher Education, 2nd January 2014
- The Independent - Legge, James: “paintings at Barts Pathology Museum” 14th August 2013
- BBC Radio London - Robert Elms Show interview, 15th August 2013
- Londonist - Khan, Tabish: “Art In The Macabre Barts Pathology Museum”, , 16th August, 2013
- London City Nights - James, D: “'Me. Complete. You' at Barts Pathology Museum”, 19th August, 2013
Residencies
2013-14 Royal Veterinary College, London – Leverhulme Trust Residency
2012-13 Barts Pathology Museum. St Bart’s Hospital, London
Memberships
Member of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters
Member of SciArt Center, New York
Gallery / Public Education
2023 – Public Portrait Drawing Event (tutor) – National Theatre, London
2021 - Portrait Artist of the Week - Sky Arts
2019 & 2020 - Portrait Artist of the Year - Sky Arts
Sept 2016 - Artist's Presentation at Medical Humanities Lab, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
April 2015 - Speaker at Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain Conference, Exeter University
March 2015 - Speaker at the Institute of Anatomical Sciences, London
Regular participating Artist at the Bloomsbury Festival (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Founder of the ‘People’s Portrait Project’ – an open source drawing project / fundraising template
September 2013 – Participant in 'Art Makes People Powerful' project for Deptford X Festival, London
April 2013 - Speaker at 'A Picture of Health' Conference, Royal College of Art, London
2009 - 2013 Member of ‘Creekside Artists’ Charitable Artist’s Collective, Deptford, London
2012 – Workshop for - 'Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men' exhibition, Museum of London
2011 – Conceived and curated 'Two to the Power Ten' a multi-artist participatory project supported by Cass Art and the British Postal Museum at Orange Dot Gallery, Bloomsbury, London
2011 – Guest Seminar Presentation to Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain (MAA) AGM
Education
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - MA Japanese Studies - 2009
Hull School of Art and Design - BA Fine Art, Printmaking - 1996
Stockport College - Foundation, Art and Design - 1993
Solo Exhibition / Projects
2024 – BS5 Art Trail, Bristol
2022 – Open House Bristol
2021 – Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Week, Facebook and Sky Arts TV
2021 - 100 Beardy Baldies - Drawing Project
2021 – The Big Studio Sale - Great Ormond Street, London
2016 - 'portrait' - Bloomsbury Festival, London
2014 - March 2015 - 'me . complete . you' - The End is Near Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY.
2014 - Open Studio - Royal Veterinary College, Camden, London
2013 – 'me . complete . you' - Barts Pathology Museum, Smithfield, London
2012 – 'Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men' - Museum of London, City of London
2011 – Art Cycle Art – Internet media art and cycle documentary project. London to Land's End
2010 – 'Autopoiesis' - Chapel of Rest, St George’s Gardens, Camden, London
2010 – 'Konseki' - School of Oriental and African Studies, Bloomsbury, London
2010 – 'In the Midst of Life' - The Art Workers Guild, Holborn, London
2009 – ‘Islands’ - Stone Theatre, Southwark, London
Selected Group Exhibition / Projects
2024 – British Art Prize - OXO Tower Gallery, London
2024 – Visceral Beauty – Shoreditch Modern, London
2024 – Behind the Artist Art Prize
2024 - Contemporary British Portrait Painters - Department Store, Brixton, London
2024 - Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Award - Birmingham
2023 – Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral
2023 – Green & Stone Summer Exhibition, London
2023 – NEAC – Mall Galleries, London
2022 - Contemporary British Portrait Painters - Department Store, Brixton, London
2022 – ‘Sequested’ Self Portrait Art Prize - Winner
2021 - Sky Portrait Artist of the Year exhibition - Compton Verney, Warwickshire
2021 - Contemporary British Portrait Painters - Cass Art, Islington, London
2021 - Discerning Eye - Mall Galleries London
2021 - Cambridge Invitational Exhibition, Castle Fine Art, Cambridge
2020 - Portraits for NHS Heroes - Art Book, published by Bloomsbury
2020 - Royal Society of Portrait Painters - Mall Galleries, London
2019 - Royal Birmingham Society of Artists - Birmingham
2018 – People’s Portrait Project – Oliver Spencer, London
2018 – Discerning Eye – Mall Galleries, London
2018 – People’s Portrait Project, Building Centre, London
2018 – Creekside – Deptford X, London
2018 – Recordless Release - Bar Babette, Berlin, Germany
2018 – Sky Portrait Artist of the Year Exhibition - Clarendon Fine Art, London
2017 – Portraits at Virgin Money Lounge – Piccadilly, London
2017 - Skeletons, Stories & Social Bodies Conference - University of Southampton
2016 – Bloomsbury Festival - People’s Portrait Project - London
2016 - Modern Panic VII – Bethnal Green, London
2016 – LCS Festival – People’s Portrait Project, Lamb’s Conduit Street, London
2015 – ‘Project After Birth’ - White Moose Gallery, Barnstaple, Devon.
2015 – ‘Recordless Release Party’ – Echo Echo, Berlin, Germany.
2015 – ‘A Call for Drawings’ BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands
2015 – 'Fabrica Vitae' - Saint Louis University, MO
2015 – ‘Fabrica Vitae’ - Emory Health Sciences Museum, Atlanta, GA.
2014 - 'The Brain' - New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York, NY.
2014 - 'One Health, One Art' - Royal College of Pathologists, London
2014 – ‘Fabrica-Vitae’ – International Touring Exhibition – Zakynthos, London, Berlin, Gdansk, Basel, Ghent, Riga
2014 – ‘The Body is the Instrument of the Soul’ - The Old Operating Theatre, London
2013 – 'Art & Science' - The Point Gallery, Doncaster
2013 – 'Anatomy for Life' - Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton
2013 – 'Anatomical Snuffbox' – Pup-Up Shop, Bethnal Green, London
2012 – 'Therianthropy' - Barts Pathology Museum, Smithfield, London
2011 – 'Two to the Power Ten' - Orange Dot Gallery, Bloomsbury, London
2010 – ‘Creekside Artists’ - A-Block Gallery Space, Deptford, London
2010 – 'Alturnative 100' Journals Project - Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
2010 – ‘Creekside Artists’ - Limelight Gallery, Lewisham, London
2009 – ‘Underdog Artists’ - UDAC Gallery, Southwark, London
Collections
Private collections: UK, USA, Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, Japan & Singapore
Public Collections:
- Soho House Collection
- Royal Veterinary College, University of London
- Camden Town Hall, London – Portrait of Mayor Jonathan Simpson (loan to Mayor’s Parlour)
Awards and Prizes
Sequested Art Prize - 2022 Winner
Cass Art Award - Cambridge Invitational 2021
ACT Award – 2014
Leverhulme Trust Award - 2013
Shortlisted (final 5) for Bulldog Bursary, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 2012
Media
- @Londonartcritic - Tabish Khan - August 2024
- London Live TV – featured artist in Shoreditch Modern Exhibition – August 2024
- Behind the Artist – Sophie Skelton - Artist’s Interview – March 2023
- Ministry Of Art Podcast - Gary Mansfield - May 2021
- London City Nights - James, David: “'One Health, One Art' at the RCP”, 26th September 2014
- B@S, Sheerin - Mark: ‘Geoffrey Harrison and the Art of Pathology’, 2nd May 2014
- Art and Science Journal - Hamilton, Lea: ‘Q&A with Geoffrey Harrison’, April 2014
- Veterinary Record: ‘Art and Science in Veterinary Education’, p38 11th January 2014
- THE: Campus Roundup ‘Animal Artistry’ Times Higher Education, 2nd January 2014
- The Independent - Legge, James: “paintings at Barts Pathology Museum” 14th August 2013
- BBC Radio London - Robert Elms Show interview, 15th August 2013
- Londonist - Khan, Tabish: “Art In The Macabre Barts Pathology Museum”, , 16th August, 2013
- London City Nights - James, D: “'Me. Complete. You' at Barts Pathology Museum”, 19th August, 2013
Residencies
2013-14 Royal Veterinary College, London – Leverhulme Trust Residency
2012-13 Barts Pathology Museum. St Bart’s Hospital, London
Memberships
Member of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters
Member of SciArt Center, New York
Gallery / Public Education
2023 – Public Portrait Drawing Event (tutor) – National Theatre, London
2021 - Portrait Artist of the Week - Sky Arts
2019 & 2020 - Portrait Artist of the Year - Sky Arts
Sept 2016 - Artist's Presentation at Medical Humanities Lab, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
April 2015 - Speaker at Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain Conference, Exeter University
March 2015 - Speaker at the Institute of Anatomical Sciences, London
Regular participating Artist at the Bloomsbury Festival (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
Founder of the ‘People’s Portrait Project’ – an open source drawing project / fundraising template
September 2013 – Participant in 'Art Makes People Powerful' project for Deptford X Festival, London
April 2013 - Speaker at 'A Picture of Health' Conference, Royal College of Art, London
2009 - 2013 Member of ‘Creekside Artists’ Charitable Artist’s Collective, Deptford, London
2012 – Workshop for - 'Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men' exhibition, Museum of London
2011 – Conceived and curated 'Two to the Power Ten' a multi-artist participatory project supported by Cass Art and the British Postal Museum at Orange Dot Gallery, Bloomsbury, London
2011 – Guest Seminar Presentation to Medical Artists' Association of Great Britain (MAA) AGM