Charlie Harrison is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, neuropsychology and support. His methods and understanding have been shaped through collaborative research which has focussed on the historical development, values and deficiencies of standardised testing methods, leading to novel social science and arts and health research.
Through collaborations at University College London Institute of Neurology, Wellcome Trust and the charity Rare Dementia Support, since 2013 Charlie has developed a series of projects alongside neuropsychologists, motor neuroscientists and people living with neurodegenerative diseases. His work seeks to understand how testing situations may function to marginalise and exclude the people and beings that encounter them, and he has worked with artistic adaptations to tests that are used in the diagnosis of conditions affecting visual and spatial perception, movement and balance, language, semantics and behaviour.
In his wider studio practice, Charlie playfully builds on this learning toremodel everyday objects and environments, drawing attention to perceptual fragility through distortions of material and sensual codes. His sculptural works are usually poorly fabricated and often placed within unsuspecting public environments. Recently his projects have been engaging with water management, agricultural production and anthropomorphized microorganisms.
Image 1: Object Projections (Studies), Miliput epoxy putty. 2016
Image 2: Single Yellow Lines (Image of participant from UCL )
Image 3: the 'Neva', film installation at Jupiter Woods, London 2019
Image 4: Overground, cardboard, foam and paint. South London Garage, 2018
