Charles Harrison is an artist based in London, working with painting, sculpture and installation. Home Contact B. 1986, based in London. Charlie Harrison is an artist, curator and creative health researcher working across art, neuroscience and engagement. His art practice remodels common forms, drawing attention to perceptual fragility through distortions of material and sensual codes. Sculptural works are usually poorly fabricated, comical and often placed within unsuspecting public environments. Recent developments in his practice have moved towards slow making, drawing and improvised music. Charlie often works through collaboration, and his artistic methods and conceptual understanding have been shaped alongside artists, musicians, curators, social scientists, neuropsychologists and people living with neurodegenerative diseases. Some of these collaborations have particularly focussed on the historical development, values and deficiencies of standardised testing methods and have led to novel social science and arts and health research funded by Wellcome Trust, University College London (UCL) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Charlie works at UCL Institute of Neurology, contributing to research, education, public and patient involvement and coordinating health and wellbeing projects alongside people living with rare dementias through the Rare Space community venture. Charlie also manages the planned Gallery Walk artist residency and development programme in South Lincolnshire, and is a member of improvised music ensemble Knot & Yoke. Selected Exhibitions and Events 2026 This Must Be The Place, SolidHaus, Suffolk, August-Sept 2026 36 Hours , Lewisham Art House, London, June 2026 2025 Der Augenring , MAUVE, Vienna. Oct-Nov 2025 Mascara Film Club 33 , Sessions House, Spalding, March 2025 2024 Speedboat , The Gliderdrome, Boston. August 2024 The Shoe Museum , Outhouse Gallery, London. July 2024 Oracle Opticians , Chemist Gallery, London. June-July 2024 2023 Neptune's Laundrette , Art Lacuna, London. Oct-Nov 2023 Talking Lines , Drawing Room, London. Oct-Dec 2023 2022 Understanding Intelligence, Open House , PRAKSIS, Oslo. Dec 2022 Ghost Show , Copeland Park, London, Oct 2022 I Have Eaten It , Refettorio Felix, London. Feb 2022 2021 Sandman Mattresses. 61 Rollins St, London. April/May 2021 2019 B18_0103-0107 . Barbican Centre, London. October 2019 H2OME TESTING for N — E º W ˝( S ) Seasonal School, Jupiter Woods. London March 2019 Testing Situations. Jupiter Woods, London Jan/Feb 2019 2018 Bollards . Deptford X Fringe, London. September 2018 Created Out of Mind Residency Showcase . Wellcome Collection, London. July 2018 Life at the Edges (Extremophile Conference Performer). Science Gallery, Dublin. June 2018 Overground . Nigel, London. May 2018 Normal? Festival of the Brain . Quarterhouse, Folkestone. May 2018 Conditions for Ongoingness// 1.2 The Gathering . Jupiter Woods, London. March/April 2018 ARUK Reframe Dementia . Oxo Gallery, London. March 2018 Trajectories . Lifespace, Dundee. February-June 2018 Wet Paint on Wall . Various Locations, London. December/January 2018 2017 Pint of Science, Dimensions of Dementia . Studio Spaces, London. October 2017 Refused . Various Locations, London/Brighton. July 2017 The Art of Gesture . Wellcome Collection, London. July 2017 We Are All Involved in this Mess . Enclave Lab, London. April, 2017 2016 Bollards . Upper Brockley Road, London. December 2016 #7 . The Koop Project, Brighton. July 2016 Lost in Thought . Science Museum, London. April 2016 Friendship Rules . The Quadrant, Brighton. February 2016. 2015 A Rational Question . TrafalgarWorks, Portslade. June 2015 CRH . TrafalgarWorks, Portslade. June 2015 2014 WP70 . Community Arts Centre, Brighton. November 2014 ArtNeuro . The Rag Factory, London. November 2014 Horror Hotel . Ghost Train on the Pier, Brighton. October 2014 WP43 . Community Arts Centre, Brighton. May 2014 Important Information . Neue Froth Kunsthalle, Hove. March 2014 2013 Work Programme 17 . Community Arts Centre, Brighton. May 2013 2010 Nature:Humanity:Technology . Inham Hall, Wisbech St Mary. June 2010 NEWS Knot & Yoke performances at Avalon Cafe & Solid Haus in 2026 - ...more gigs, releases and ways to get involved incoming... Exhibition photos from MAUVE, Vienna Clive From Accounts & Sandman Mattresses (album cover collaboration) Listen: Oracle Opticians conversation with Rebecca Edwards Read: Oracle Opticians article in Post Art Clarity Co-authored Research Papers & Press ‘Talking lines’: the stories of diagnosis and support as told by those with lived experience of rare forms of dementia, 2024 Talking Lines: A Research Protocol Integrating Verbal and Visual Narratives to Understand the Experiences of People Affected by Rarer Forms of Dementia, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2023 Contributions of patient a nd citizen researchers to ‘Am I the right way up?’ st udy of balance in posterior cortical atrophy and typical Alzheimer’s disease . Dementia, 2018 Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity. (book chapter). Springer, November 2019 Conceptualising and Understanding Artistic Creativity in the Dementias: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice . Frontiers in Psychology, September 2018. Exploring dementia through art and science. Fergus Walsh, BBC News, May 2018 Profiles in paint: contrasting responses to a common artistic exercise by people with different dementias. Arts & Health, November 2017 Preparatory planning framework for Created Out of Mind: Shaping perceptions of dementia through art and science. Wellcome Open Research, November 2017 The lines are open: An artist’s experience of working with dementia research. Dementia, October 2017 Forgetting but not gone: dementia and the arts . Philip Ball, The Observer, March 2017 Object & Display. Dupe, The Dark Issue. May 2014 Links & Education Rare Space - Website Dementia and the Arts: Sharing Practice, Developing Understanding and Enhancing Lives - Online course The Many Faces of Dementia - Online Course Rare Dementia Support - Website Commercial painting

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Charles_Harrison_Faces Procession (variation I), 2024 40x40cm Ink, acrylic, pastel, oil and resin on printed canvas Procession (variation II), 2024 40x40cm Ink, acrylic, pastel, oil and resin on printed canvas Quadrate (variation I), 2024 80x80cm Ink, acrylic, pastel, oil and resin on printed canvas Biography Charles Harrison (b. 1986, Kenya) is a dynamic contemporary artist whose work explores the depths of human emotion and connection. Harrison’s paintings are not portraits in the traditional sense but rather expressions of human experience—fluid, layered, and deeply introspective. His figures emerge from textured surfaces, built through an instinctive process of abstraction and realism. By layering colour, mark-making, and spatial depth, he creates works that evoke the complexity of human interaction and perception. “In these faces,” Harrison explains, “I seek a kind of abstract realism—one that resonates both visually and emotionally. I want the viewer to feel a moment of recognition, as if their gaze is met and understood.” In r ecent developments, Charles has been working alongside AI to explore new mark-making techniques , and technological relationships with the human. With a growing international presence, his work is held in numerous private and public collections worldwide, solidifying his reputation as an artist whose work speaks to the universal nature of human connection. 2025 Amélie, 2025 Mixed media on printed canvas 60 X 80 cm Tussle, 2025 Mixed media on printed canvas 60 X 60 cm Model, 2025 Mixed media on printed canvas 60 X 60 cm Red, 2025 Mixed media on printed canvas 60 X 60 cm Docio, 2025 Mixed media on printed canvas 60 X 60 cm Available works

About Blog Events Team Partners Protocal Minutes Search Results More Anonymous quotations about testing, taken from touring events and one to one conversations Clinician - “You collude with where they (individuals and family) want to be.” PLWD – “why repeat the tests so many times!?” PLWD – “I was there for 3 hours and I hated it.” Carer – “I didn’t feel listened to as part of the diagnostic process” Carer – “The carer is always right” Carer – “Just getting to the point of testing can be difficult - GP’s can be the enemy” Carer – “Forcing something makes you want to do it less.” Carer – “Services seem to only be provided when things are at their worst” PLWD – “I was told to stop driving out of the blue!” PLWD – “These days people are employed based of how they score rather than who they are” PLWD – “the MMSE is useless!” PLWD – “How do you measure distraction?” PLWD – “Everybody is different. Testing doesn’t seem to reflect this.” Health Expert – “Make sure you leave a little extra time, so things aren’t rushed.” Carer – “The test was done at our family home in relaxed surroundings. It made a difference.” Clinician – “…testing should be implicit and not explicit questions that tap into someone’s real-world difficulties while they are living their normal life.” Carer – “I very much remember the way it (testing) was carried out left a lasting impression on me… there was no talking-over but engagement. Afterwards they also engaged in conversation over what the results showed, and their time was our time.”

Single Yellow Lines 2016 - present Single Yellow Lines is an interdisciplinary project investigating the characteristics of singular painted gestures. Can single painted gestures tell us anything about individual moments of creativity? This project invites people to paint single lines - both controlled and expressive - in artistic, public and experimental contexts. Single Yellow Lines is exploring and recording moments of painterly action in a series of creative environments. Around 500 people have been invited to paint single yellow lines; as part of an art activity at Rare Dementia Support Groups, in one-on-one conversations with artists, scientists, people with dementia and carers, and at public talks and events. The project has been further adapted as part of the “Am I the right way up?” Study investigating balance, movement and perceived verticality for people with Posterior Cortical Atrophy - an atypical form of Alzheimer’s disease which predominantly affects visual and spatial perception. Further artistic experiments using virtual reality and data-as-sound are currently being explored. The project aims to highlight the individuality and complexity contained in a single gesture, whilst also developing innovative techniques and situations for recording, analysing, interpreting and storing artistic and scientific data. This project has been funded by the Created Out of Mind residency at Wellcome Collection, London and UCL. The project will be touring throughout 2019, funded by a Wellcome Public Engagement grant. For further information, exhibitions and screenings, please contact us Touring information can be found here Please click here for lines painted in Virtual Reality using Google Tiltbrush Back

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