These paintings are the result of identifying the moments when my best work is produced. I try to resist the influence of other peoples work; instead, I try to learn by studying my own.
This process is helping me to understand what drives me to paint.
To be an ‘Artist' is to wonder a curious path. It is a relentless task to resist the seduction of the commercial market and its financial rewards. The price is to cease all lines of investigation within your work, by no longer taking risks and resulting in becoming artistically stagnant. These are things I am conscious of and do my very best to avoid.
My paintings have derived from connecting and listening to my inner voice. It occupies a place not dissimilar, I would imagine, to the ‘mental state' a runner must reach to complete a marathon.
It speaks to me not in words but in a language of colour, movement and passion.
I have only ever experienced this state of mind whilst painting and in my opinion, this is when my best work is produced.
I sometimes see hints of imagery emerge that possibly relate to a discussion or thought I may have had in the past. This is not intended to be accurately interpreted by anyone else.
The work is what it is. Individual paintings spawn from listening to and expressing an internal voice, uncensored and my own. Cheryl Harrison August 2006
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
2006
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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.
Weathered Language The Book Gallery. St. Ives.
Open Studios, St Ives Sept Festival.
Altered States Vitreous Contemporary Art
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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
2005 |
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 |
PUBLIC ART UK
2000
2001 |
Short-listed Pitshanger Gallery, Elthorne Park Project, Ealing
Blondin Park Project, London |
PUBLIC ART AUSTRALIA
1997 |
Flagging the Avenue Ballarat |
PUBLICATIONS
1997
2000
2001
2001
2002
2005
2005
2005
2005
2006
2006 |
“Flying the Flag for Avenue Appeal” The Courier, Newspaper, 1Nov, p12. (Australia)
“Exhibitors” A&I Magazine, Exhibition Catalogue, August
“Cheryl Harrison”, Pictures, Prints and Galleries, IDH Book , p.439
“Reading Room Gallery”, AN Magazine, What's On , October
“Art Listing”, Inside Cornwall, September
“Art Listing”, Inside Cornwall, July
The St Ives Times & Echo Newspaper, July
The Cornishman, July
“Art Listing”, Inside Cornwall, December
“Artists in Britain since 1945” [new edition] by David Buckman (publication, summer 2006)
“Gallery Roundup”, Inside Cornwall, September |
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