Cheryl Harrison
My work is an eclectic result of looking for beauty in the ordinary, or the overlooked moments within my surroundings. From this, I construct a visual language, in which there are no rules. They are paintings that start some place and end when least expected. Some may say this is a very ‘up in the air' way to paint and I am the first to admit, that this approach is anything other than straight forward, but I believe that is the ingredient that gives the work it's own personality, and the thing that keeps my coming back for more.
I have long given up trying to figure out the whole artistic process, and I have never wanted to turn it into a science. I'm just glad that when I pick up a brush, I'm doing what I love and (touch wood) my Muse always seems to find me.
EDUCATION
1996 - 1998
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Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from University of Ballarat, Victoria, Aus. |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1998
1999
2001
2002
2004
2005
2005
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Run After Your Food: A Selection of Works exploring Papua New Guinea's Subsistence Culture: Whistler's Cottage Gallery, Geelong. Australia.
Coming Out. The Loft, Ballarat. Australia.
Scratching the Surface. Australian High Commission. London.
Place Belong Me; Place Belong You. Jersey Galleries, Ealing.
Open Studios, St Ives Sept Festival.
The Book Gallery. St. Ives.
Open Studios, St Ives Sept Festival.
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS AUSTRALIA
1995
1997
1998
1998
1998
1998
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Geelong Art Show.
Ballarat Society of Artists.
York Street Community Centre, Ballarat.
Webster Group. Ballarat.
Graduate Exhibition. University of Ballarat.
Regular Artists' Group. Whistler's Cottage Gallery. |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS UK
2000
2001
2001
2001
2002
2002
2002
2002
2002
2004
2005
2005
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A & I Exhibition, Kensington. London.
Plumbline Gallery. St. Ives.
Open Exhibition: Orleans House Gallery. Twickenham.
Pitshanger Manor Gallery. Ealing.
Plumbline Gallery, St. Ives.
Hays Gallery. London.
The Lyn Strover Gallery. Cambridge.
Battersea Art Fair London.
Market House Gallery Marazion, Three Women Artists: Alethea Garstin / Dora Holzhandler / Cheryl Harrison.
St.Ives September Fringe Festival, Open Studio.
Battersea Art Fair London.
St.Ives September Fringe Festival, Open Studio.
The Christmas Show,Vitreous Contemporary Art, Truro |
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