Colin Harrison was born in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1939. He studied at Leicester College of Art from 1957 to 1961 and the Royal College of Art from 1961 and 1964. From 1964 to 1973 he was a lecturer in the Fine Art Department at the Ulster College of Art and Design. He currently lives and works in Lincolnshire, England. Colin Harrison’s work, with its ambiguous, enigmatic detail and consummately skilled draughtsmanship, constantly plays with the viewer’s preconceptions of a unified pictorial space/time/narrative. His paintings and drawings typically conflate references from apparently disparate sources in spaces fractured by mathematical grids and overlapping perspectives, lending them a multiplicity of spatial, symbolic and metaphorical viewpoints that are at once humorous and darkly disturbing.Colin Harrison was awarded the David Murrary Scholarship by the Royal Academy Schools in 1961 and he was a prizewinner at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art in 1969. Despite returning to live in England in the 1970s, Harrison has continued to exhibit most frequently in Ireland, with solo exhibitions at the Orchard Gallery and Caldwell Gallery, Belfast. He has exhibited consistently as part of the RHA Annual Exhibition in Dublin and taken part in several IELA shows. His work is included in the public collections of the Arts Council, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Ulster Museum, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, and Bank of Ireland, and in private collections across Ireland, Great Britain and America.
Exhibitions with Taylor Galleries:1996 Paintings 1990-1996
1987 Colin Harrison
1984 New Works
1981 with Charles Oakley
1980
1976 (Dawson Gallery)
1974 Paintings, Constructions, Drawings (Dawson Gallery)