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been said that figurative painting has long been out of fashion in
British art schools and among the curators of the nation's galleries of modern art, Harrison has been one of the very few younger contemporary artists to hold to this ancestral tradition. Recently, Harrison has been said by Sewell to be a visionary prophet, his paintings big, bold, beautiful and threatening.
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Francis Bacon's Retrospective Exhibition at London's Tate Gallery; Temptation and the constant struggle between Good and Evil that Harrison saw in Bacon's work have remained important and abiding themes for him ever since. Subsequently, Harrison moved from a
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Harrison's first solo show in 1990 at the Berkeley Square Gallery in London's Mayfair, Sewell wrote that Goya, Rembrandt and Delacroix might recognise him as in some sense their heir. In 1993, Harrison's next solo show was at Jill George Gallery in London's Soho, and he then had solo
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Many of the paintings in the series of exhibitions at
Albemarle Gallery from 2002 to 2016 have centred around such themes, in particular the biblical vision of St. John The Divine of The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse, and the Greek myth surrounding the figure of Andromeda. At a time when it has
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Harrison's paintings fall into two distinct areas of endeavour; landscape painting and figurative painting. The landscapes depict the power and violence of natural forces, and the figurative works explore the dark and emotive subjects of
Armageddon and Death. His early work, whilst a student at
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Mayfair in 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2016, and at Pontone Gallery in 2018 and 2022. The landscape paintings in the 2006 Albemarle Gallery show were likened to a Götterdämmerung, and The Horsemen in the same show were said by Sewell to be the product of a darkly mediaeval
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convincing interest in the texture and manipulative qualities of the simple materials of a painting to biblical and mythical narratives that were common among
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Liverpool. In 2011 he had exhibitions at Dea Orh Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic and at Chenshia Museum in Wuhan, the first exhibition by a British artist in a private museum in The People's Republic of China.
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in North West London (1968–72). In 1973, he travelled down the West
African coast from Dakar in Senegal to Douala in Cameroon as cadet purser on the Merchant Navy vessel MV Dalla. In September 1973, he went up to
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London's Chelsea School of Art from 1984 to 1988, was essentially abstract, and abstract values have formed the armature of all of his later work.
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imagination. In 2023, Harrison had his first New York solo exhibition at Friedrichs Pontone in the Tribeca district of downtown Manhattan.
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for "Young Masters". Harrison's contribution consisted of figures engaged in titanic struggle and landscapes in immense flux.
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Richard Harrison was born on 2 October 1954, in Mill Road Hospital,
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Brian Sewell,'Saved from drowning in the sea of postmodernism' in
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Laura Davis, 'Proud to exhibit our work in our home city' in
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Nothing Wasted : The Paintings of Richard Harrison
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