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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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Assorted Paintings 2012-present Mixed works, various sources Back to paintings homepage Next Project

DEEP FLAKES Batch production of cornflakes and live-streaming of the morning routine from a makeshift studio kitchen. + an attempt to eat the cornflakes when two years out of date. Previous Project Next Project

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Lamp (forge), 2024 Displayed at the Gliderdrome, Boston Previous Project Next Project

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Overground 2018 A full scale replica of a London Overground Station staircase was built in a garage from foam, card and paint and then opened up to the public for a total of 24 hours over one week. The event was documented using CCTV which was live- streamed online, alongside note-taking, logbooks and public photography. Please click on images below to expand. 1/1 Previous Project Next Project

Testing Situations About Blog Events Team Partners Protocal Minutes Search Results More How do cognitive tests help us understand how the human mind works? By adapting existing tests and utilising artistic methods this project uncovers experiences of assessment whilst communicating the ways we perceive the world. Testing Situations is a research project working with the mechanisms of neurological assessment. A series of artworks have been created in response to testing materials and archival videos of people undertaking assessments, and the project has initially focused on tests of language, object, spatial and semantic perception developed at UCL Institute of Neurology. An archive of examples detailing similarities between cognitive tests and conceptual artworks is being formulated and through this research new tests and situations are being explored. The project aims to straddle forms of creativity used in the fields of neuropsychology, conceptual art and experimental technology to discuss the historical evolution of tests and adapt the ways people are assessed in the future. Testing Situations toured around the UK throughout 2019, funded by a Wellcome Public Engagement grant. The project has been developed through the Created Out of Mind research residency at Wellcome Collection and collaborations with members of Rare Dementia Support groups and researchers at the Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology. Learning from this project was expanded on as part of the Understanding Intelligence residency at PRAKSIS, Oslo which asked how constructs of intelligence are measured, used and abused, and how changing understandings of human and more-than-human worlds might require radical redefinitions. More information can be found here. Understanding Intelligence Collaborative project based in Oslo, asking how constructs of intelligence are measured, used and abused. Talking Lines Development of a novel line drawing methodology, with social scientists and people living with rare dementias. The 'Neva' A multichannel video installation about dementia, narration and the landscapes of a test Single Yellow Lines An interdisciplinary project investigating the characteristics of singular painted gestures. Testing Situations Artworks Artworks created in response to testing materials and archival videos. Examples Examples detailing similarities between cognitive tests and conceptual artworks Profiles in Paint A still-life painting project offering insight into the varied experiences of people with different dementias. Study Projects Initial painting studies, contributing to early collaborations. Back

Temporary Observations 2016 - present How do common objects and experiences direct and shape our actions? This project creates artificial interventions in the built environment for observation into the fragility of our perceptual models. The observation of genuine human behaviours can be fleeting and ungraspable. By placing engrained signs, models and installations in a series of common and less common scenarios, viewers are invited to interact with artificial structures and test their perceptual agility. Documentation and recording of these interactions may be left to the imagination; when objects such as replica fuse switches or wet paint signs are removed or taken, residues of these accords and altercations can be seen and pondered. More recently, CCTV systems have been used alongside live note-taking, trap-cams and documentation by the viewers themselves. LOST Misplaced objects of play Work in progress Bollards II 10 replica bollards were planted in selected pedestrian locations around Deptford (for DeptfordX Fringe). Documentation of public interactions with the bollards were recorded and broadcast live online. (Click here for more documentation) Overground A full scale replica of a London Overground Station staircase was built in a garage from foam, card and paint and then opened up to the public. The event was documented using CCTV and public photography for 24 hours, over a week. (Click here for more documentation) Wet Paint on Wall Wet Paint signs are stuck to different walls and visited periodically to see how long they stay up. (Click here for more documentation) Refused Replica fuse switches were left in pub toilets and visited periodically to observe if they have been removed. (Click here for more documentation) Bollards I Four cardboard bollards were placed on a road at 4am for 30 minutes. 1 early morning delivery driver reversed back down the road. (Click here for more documentation) Back Next

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