John Wood and Paul Harrison

something on the front of a building

John Wood and Paul Harrison make things that move and things that don’t, things that are flat and things that are not, things that are mildly amusing and things that are definitely not.

They make works that form a kind of reference manual for how to do, make, build, or draw things that you probably never want to do, make, build, or draw. They do it for you. Even though you don’t need them to.

This attempt to compile an encyclopaedia of the everyday, started in 1993 after they met at art college. For the Kestner Gesellschaft facade, they develop a thing or two, across and along, an architectural page, a tabula rasa (of the everyday).

John Wood (b.1969, Hong Kong) and Paul Harrison (b.1966, Wolverhampton). Recent solo exhibitions include: Bored, Gallery Cristin Tierney, New York (2021); Words Made of Atoms, Gallery von Bartha, S-chanf, Switzerland (2020); As logical as possible, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany (2017).

Recent group exhibitions include: Fresh Window, MUDAM, Luxemburg (2019); On Struggling to remain present when you want to disappear, OCAT Museum, Shanghai,China (2018); [Re]construct, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2017). Selected Solo museum shows: CAMH, Houston, USA / Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan / Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK / Frist Centre, Nashville, USA / Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland / Chateau de Rochechouart, France / Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary.