Margaret Harrison
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Margaret Harrison is an English feminist and artist
whose work over the past decade has dealt with different media and a range of subject matter which has established her as a leading artist in Britain.
Harrison studied at the Carlisle College of Art
from 1957–61; the Royal Academy Schools
, London England, from 1961–64; and graduated from the Perugia Fine Arts Academy, Italy, in 1965.
She founded the London Women's Liberation Art Group in 1970. A 1971 exhibition of her work that was closed by the police included a piece depicting Hugh Heffner as a naked Bunny girl. Her work "Beautiful Ugly Violence" was described as "a field day of juxtapositions, as the bright and almost cheery colors of her paintings counter the often subdued and sometimes deadly topic: the various means of committing violence against women."
Harrison continues to work in both the United States and England and has exhibited in America, Switzerland, and Great Britain. Her work has been shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Tate Modern. She was a Senior Research Professor and Director of the Social and Environmental Art Research Centre.
Her latest work (Spring 2011) will be exhibited at the PayneShurvell
gallery in East London. It is entitiled 'I am a Fantasy' and runs from 15 April to 21 May. The show is curated by Beverley Knowles.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
whose work over the past decade has dealt with different media and a range of subject matter which has established her as a leading artist in Britain.
Harrison studied at the Carlisle College of Art
Cumbria Institute of the Arts
The Cumbria Institute of the Arts was a further and higher education institution in Carlisle, Cumbria, England.-History:Founded as the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in 1822, it proceeded as the Carlisle College of Art, from 1950, and switched to Cumbria Institute of the Arts from...
from 1957–61; the Royal Academy Schools
Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
, London England, from 1961–64; and graduated from the Perugia Fine Arts Academy, Italy, in 1965.
She founded the London Women's Liberation Art Group in 1970. A 1971 exhibition of her work that was closed by the police included a piece depicting Hugh Heffner as a naked Bunny girl. Her work "Beautiful Ugly Violence" was described as "a field day of juxtapositions, as the bright and almost cheery colors of her paintings counter the often subdued and sometimes deadly topic: the various means of committing violence against women."
Harrison continues to work in both the United States and England and has exhibited in America, Switzerland, and Great Britain. Her work has been shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Tate Modern. She was a Senior Research Professor and Director of the Social and Environmental Art Research Centre.
Her latest work (Spring 2011) will be exhibited at the PayneShurvell
PayneShurvell
PayneShurvell is a contemporary art gallery based in Curtain Road in the East End of London. It shows Andrew Curtis, Aidan McNeill, Wrik Mead, and Margaret Harrison whose first show in 1971 was famously closed by the police for public indecency, and who has seven paintings in the Tate collection...
gallery in East London. It is entitiled 'I am a Fantasy' and runs from 15 April to 21 May. The show is curated by Beverley Knowles.
External links
- Margaret Harrison at PayneShurvell
- Margaret Harrison interview April 2011
- http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1248&page=1Margaret Harrison in the TateTate-Places:*Tate, Georgia, a town in the United States*Tate County, Mississippi, a county in the United States*Táté, the Hungarian name for Totoi village, Sântimbru Commune, Alba County, Romania*Tate, Filipino word for States...
collection] - Margaret Harrison in the Ronald Feldman Gallery
- Margaret Harrison at Beverley Knowles Fine Art
- Margaret Harrison interviewed for artistsinsight.com April 2011