Lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland
Education
PhD (Sculpture) Candidate
Edinburgh College of Art 2007 - ongoing
MFA (Sculpture)
Edinburgh College of Art 2005 - 2007
1st Class MA (Honors) Fine Art
University of Edinburgh / Edinburgh College of Art 2000 - 2005
Dissertation title: Cutting Edge or Dicing with Death: Death and Dissection in Contemporary British Art
Exhibitions
Solo Shows:
Broken, 28th April - 15th May 20011, Jealous Gallery, London
Jessica Harrison, 17th October - 13th November 2009, Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington
Collection, August 10th 2005 - October 9th 2005, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Selected Group Shows:
2011
Sensory Worlds, 7th December - 10th December 2011, Inspace Gallery, Edinburgh
Industrial Aesthetics: Environmental influences on recent art from Scotland, 28th September - 12th November 2011, Times Square Gallery, New York
International Print Biennale, 17th September - 19th November, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
HEY! Modern art et Pop culture, 16th September 2011 - 4th March 2012, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris
DOCument, 5th July - 15th July, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
IMPULSE, 2nd July - 26th August, Aando Fine Art, Berlin
Whitelines, 11th February - 17th February, Whitespace, Edinburgh
Object-Orientation, 1st February - 10th March, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, California
2010
UK Young Artists, 21st October - 18th November, University of Derby, Markeaton Street, Derby
Make Room, 23rd October 2010 - 9th October 2011, The New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands
O+ Festival, 8th October - 10th October, Kingston, New York
Milestone, October 2010 onwards, Cass Sculpture Park, Goodwood, West Sussex
Otherwise, 11th September - 23rd October, Naked State Gallery, Brussels
Lithos, 13th August - 28th August, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin
StolenSpace Summer Show, 2nd July - 27th July, StolenSpace, London
Milestone, 18th June - 17th August, The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Milestone, 13th March - 1st May, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
2009
As We Speak, 27th November, Market Gallery, Glasgow
The Reckoning: Part Two, 4th September - 26th September, Kings ARI, Melbourne
MILESTONE, 1st August - 30th August, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
The Reckoning: Part One, 12th June - 28th June, Sierra Metro, Edinburgh
From Blackadder to Borland: Scottish Women Printmakers, 2nd June - 2nd August, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
5 Scottish Print Studios, 18th March - 16th May, Center for Contemporary
Printmaking, Norwalk, Connecticut
The Golden Record: Sounds of the Earth, 21st March - 3rd May, Lincoln The Collection, Lincoln
Sketch Show, 19th February - 16th March, Jealous Gallery, London
Symmetry, 13th February - 7th March, Black church Original Print Gallery, Dublin
The Open West, 21st February - 27th March, Summerfield Gallery, Gloucestershire
Winter Warmth, 1st November - 3rd January, The Park Gallery, Falkirk
2008
Document, 24th November - 30th November, Edinburgh College of Art
DIRTY FINGERS, 12th September, St. Mauritius Pfarrsaal, Koln
THE GOLDEN RECORD, 1st August - 13th September, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Big Things on the Beach, 2nd August - 31st August, Portobello, Edinburgh
NEW HORIZONS, 10th July - 20th July, Number 6 studios, Pateley Bridge
MOTHER'S RUIN, 24th April 2008 - 18th May, StolenSpace, London
REVEAL, January, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
2007
SURVEY, 10th November - 18th December, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Editions/Artists Book Fair, November 1st - November 4th, The Tunnel, New York
Graduate Show, 18th October - 21st October , The Affordable Art Fair, London
Edinburgh Printmakers New Commissions, 22nd September - 3rd November, Edinburgh Printmakers
Stolen Space Summer Group Show, 28th June - 22nd July, StolenSpace, London
ESW New Members Exhibition, 6th June 2007 - 14th June, GallerA1, Edinburgh
ARTfutures, 8th March - 14th March, The Bloomberg Space, London
On The Rocks, 1st March - 10th march, The Lighthouse, Edinburgh
Group Show, 7th February - 8th March, Amber Roome Contemporary Art, Edinburgh
2006
GREATER THAN EVER, 27th October - 15th November, The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
Brave Art 06, 20th September - 24th September, Atlantis Gallery, London
MAGAZINE 06, 12th August - 21st August, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh
In Motion, 23rd July - 1st August, Chalk Farm, London
Unnatural Selection, July 14th - September 3rd, Shrewsbury Gallery & Museum, Shrewsbury
SSA Annual Exhibition, June 16th - July 27th, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
RSA Student Exhibition, February 2007, 2006, 2005, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Works on Paper, November 12th - December 13th, Amber Roome Contemporary Art, Edinburgh
2005
Lashings of Ginger Beer, July 10th 2005 - September 1st 2005, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Commissions
Shortlisted for Scottish Seabird Centre Gateway Sculpture Commission, June 2011 - outcome pending
Shortlisted for National Museum of Scotland Peoples and Landscape Gallery Commission, April 2009
Spinal Column, June 2004, permanent installation at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, commissioned by the Royal College of Surgeons.
Public Collections
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Fingal County Public Art Collection, Ireland
The Royal Scottish Academy Collection, Edinburgh
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
Residencies
Feelystone Artist-in-residence, July 2010, Feelystone stone works, Boyle, Ireland
International Lithography Artist-in-Residence October/November 2008, Black Church Print Studio, Dublin
Awards
RSA Sculpture Prize, February 2007, Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh
Printmakers Graduate Commission, December 2006, Edinburgh Printmakers
Andrew Grant Award, June 2006, Edinburgh College of Art
Andrew Grant Bequest, June 2006, Edinburgh College of Art
John Watson Prize, June 2005, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Andrew Doolan Sculpture Prize, June 2005, Edinburgh College of Art
Andrew Grant Bequest, June 2005, Edinburgh College of Art
Kinross Scholarship, June 2005, Royal Scottish Academy
Chalmers Bursary Award, March 2005, Royal Scottish Academy
Charterhouse Prize for Art, December 2000, Sir John Deans College
Publications
Jessica Harrison, Body and Stone, in 'STONE' by Jake Harvey, 2011, Black Dog Publishing
Jessica Harrison, WOLF magazine, Issue 1, February 2011 (UK)
Body Sessions, by Anne & Julien, HEY!, No. 4, December 2010 (France)
Violent Aesthetics of the female artist, Modern Decoration, No. 193, October 2010 (China)
Head Girl, by Alex Godfrey, Bizarre, No.169, October 2010 (UK)
Portfolio: Jessica Harrison, by Ruth Barker, Map, November 2005 (UK)
Media
Interview with Alastair Sooke, Romancing the Stone: the golden ages of British sculpture. Episode One. 'Masons of God'. BBC, BBC4, Directed by Mark Halliley. Broadcast 9 February 2011 21.00.