Dr Paul Liam Harrison

Paul is an artist with a background in print, printmaking and publishing. His practice inherently combines the use of traditional print methods and materials with new and emerging technologies.

His research interests include an ongoing investigation into the relationships between art and science - particularly the inter-relations of visual arts and biological sciences. He is particularly interested in the processing methods and visualisation systems applied to biological research data and information, both in an historical and contemporary context – and what alternative methods and systems might be appropriate in understanding what we are and how life functions.

An integral aspect of his work is the development of collaborative projects that might fuse a diversity of skills and knowledge bases to enable an interdisciplinary approach to the exploration of these relationships in both a specialist and public context.

His interest in the nature of print and the potential for print processes to facilitate creative community and interdisciplinary dialogue is the basis for several print development projects currently underway in Scotland and with Dene communities in the Canadian north West Territories.

Paul is currently engaged in projects with scientists at the University of Dundee Biocentre, the Human Genetics Unit, MRC, Edinburgh and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory New York. He is the resident artist at the Human Genome Organisation and visiting fellow/artist in residence at the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics at the University of Cardiff. He is also resident artist with EpiGeneSys, European network of Excellence based at the Institut Curie, Paris.