Featured Member
Geoffrey Harrison
Oedipus (2012). 30 x 40cm. Gouache on
panel. Image courtesy of the artist.
By Yasmin Tayag
Contributor
The subjects in Geoffrey Harrison’s work
seem to float. In Hanuman (2013), a fetus, still
encased in its mother’s womb, is nestled in soft,
solid black; in Paradox 1 (2010), the dark underbelly of an intestinal loop sits heavily upon a
stark expanse of white.
Harrison refers to these works as ‘islands’
or ‘archipelagos’. In an e-mail interview with
SciArt in America, he explained, “I think I’ve
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always had a particular aesthetic approach to
my work, favoring composition that isolates
the subject. It delineates and directs the focus,
meaning I can be less ambiguous about what I
want to communicate.”
He’s no stranger to islands, having spent his
entire life living on them. Harrison grew up in
Manchester, England and later moved to Japan
to teach English on a tiny island, hundreds of
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