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Paul Harrison is an artist with a background and prevailing interest in print, printmaking and publishing. His practice inherently combines the use of traditional print methods and materials with new and emerging technologies. He is currently appointed as research assistant/fellow and PhD Researcher at the University of Dundee, Visual Research Centre (VRC) where he co-ordinates and facilitates activity in the print publishing facility. This activity is centred around the realisation of print production projects in support of staff research. Such projects have included the 'Leabhar Mor/Great Book of Gaelic', commissioned by the Gaelic Arts Agency (Cannongate and published in full by Cannongate (2002). Also the 'Higher Still (prints for schools)' project, the 'Voices of Scotland' project for the new Scottish Parliament building and book and folio projects with artists such as Richard Long and Fiona Banner. The collaborative nature of this activity and the structured process of print practice has evolved into the framework for his ongoing research and basis for his PhD study. This work is concerned with the development of collaborative projects which explore the process of visualisation of information in both a specialist and public context. The focus of the work is the rapid developments in cell and gene research and the potential role of image making practice within this process. |
"Rapid progress in the development of new knowledge and technologies have challenged the way we visualise and perceive our world and the implications of this are far reaching." Paul’s research is concerned with how we have dealt with these problems historically and how we can apply this experience to new visual criteria. He is exploring this through on going dialogue and a series of practice based collaborations with laboratory and social scientists. These include projects with researchers at the University of Dundee Biocentre, the Human Genetics Unit, MRC, Edinburgh and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) New York. He is also artist in residence at the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) and visiting fellow/artist in residence at the Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics (CESAGen) at the University of Cardiff. |
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