Jerome Harrington - NOW

The Edge of Our Thinking - Royal College of Art

2011-11-11T09:01:00.000-08:00

18–19 November 2011

I am presenting at the forthcoming The Edge of Our Thinking conference at the RCA, here is the abstract for my presentation:

Plasticine, Ekphrasis and imagined making is a combined workshop and presentation, where narrative presentation and making process are integral elements. This method of presentation aims to collapse together a reflection of existing work, with new evidence generated live through the workshop.

Participants will engage in two making processes, with the aim of turning participants into stakeholders, the evidence that they produce providing a personal experience and knowledge to view / engage with the wider project’s contextualisation.

The workshop / presentation will creatively explore information ‘in’ the object, examining how the partial and incomplete nature of visible evidence of process, leaves potential for us to form subjective positions, fueled by a gap in our understanding of making process.

Further information:
The Edge of Our Thinking

S1 Members Show 2011

2011-11-11T08:58:00.000-08:00

Testing Space - S1 Artspace, Sheffield

2011-05-10T08:22:00.000-07:00

S1 Artspace
Tuesday 17th May 2011 - 6-9pm

S1 Artists welcome you to join us for a drink at S1 Artspace and view our open studios, which are now (almost) finished and fully functioning as working spaces, followed by Testing Space, a selection of performance and screenings developed by S1 artists James Price, Alison J. Carr, Jerome Harrington and Peter Martin. Testing Space allows the artists to invite an audience into their working process, experiment with formats, stage new works and reconfigure elements of past projects; the event will take place in the new S1 Artspace gallery.

FIFTEEN - S1 Artspace, Sheffield

2011-05-10T08:20:00.000-07:00

Inhabiting any new premises requires its potential occupant to conduct a survey and inspection of the building to test its condition and value. For an artist-led space, this survey involves more than an assessment of bricks and mortar, it has to be tested in other ways. To mark the inauguration of its new premises and the occasion of its 15 year anniversary, S1 Artspace has invited over 30 artists to survey its new space, to test it out according to the criteria of their specific practices.

The exhibiting artists have already played a key part in S1’s history, they include previous and current studio holders as well as artists who have contributed towards S1’s programme over the last 15 years. The exhibition attempts to address the notion of the survey show: it is not an occasion of looking backwards, a retrospective survey that simply attempts to celebrate what has already been. Rather, the exhibition itself is presented a s a testing space, where selected artists have been invited (back) based on their capacity to both reflect and test out key concerns and issues considered intrinsic to S1’s programming (past, present and future).

Some works act as support structures for presenting the work of other artists, elsewhere collaborative approaches are made more central, where the line between individual and collective practice is wilfully blurred. The critical concerns of the exhibition (and issues relating to artist-led activity more broadly) will be further addressed through a series of talks, panel discussions and events, collectively entitled S1 Assembly. Together the exhibition and events programme operate both as a survey of S1’s (past) activity and for surveying its new premise s and the potential therein; where the past is drawn upon as a way to test the conditions of the present, as a point of provocation against which to develop and debate possibilities for future action.

FIFTEEN is curated by Louise Hutchinson and George Henry Longly.

The Pursuit of Happiness

2010-05-24T05:10:00.000-07:00

I am showing a piece of work in the Pursuit of Happiness exhibition at the Arsenal Gallery in Poznan in Poland from 7th May to 6th June 2010.

The Pursuit of Happiness is a curatorial project aiming to encourage creative discussion on the phenomenon of happiness and its pursuit in a contemporary, global context.

Curators: Tekla Woźniak, Zbigniew Kotkiewicz

Further information:

http://happinessexhibition.blogspot.com/

‘What Happens if... ?’ at the Storey Gallery in Lancaster

2010-01-26T15:29:00.000-08:00

I am showing work called 'Investment, Benefits, Dividends' (2006) in a group show called ‘What Happens if... ?’ at the Storey Gallery in Lancaster from 30 January – 3 April 2010.

between escaping and committing

2009-09-13T08:29:00.000-07:00

Go-cart Gallery, Gotland, Sweden

19th September - 7th October 2009

A 3 person exhibition with Helena Kagebrand, Julia Keyte, Jerome Harrington

Glas(s) - Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam 1969-2009

2009-03-01T03:48:00.000-08:00

Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag

14 March 2009 - 1 November 2009

I am showing The Glass Achive as part of an exhibition, Glas(s) to mark the 40th anniversary of the glass department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.

http://www.gemeentemuseum.nl/index.php?id=035924

Residency

2009-01-28T02:27:00.000-08:00

From 19th January 2009 I am taking part in a 3-month research residency, supported by the Crafts Council and hosted by the Ceramics and Glass Department at the University of Sunderland.

The purpose of the residency is to experiment and development new work with a glass making process called lampworking. Lampworking uses a table mounted torch fueled by a mixture of propane and oxygen to melt and shape pre-made tubes and canes of pyrex glass. The process is more commonly associated with the production of complex scientific apparatus.

http://glassresearch.sunderland.ac.uk

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk

S1 Artspace Members Show

2008-11-18T13:55:00.000-08:00

A long list of compromises (2008)
Photographs by David Martin, Courtesy of S1 Artspace

This year's S1 Members' Show will feature selected new painting by John Burke, sculpture by Haroon Mirza and Jerome Harrington, photography by Charlotte Morgan and video and sound works by Katie Davies. The work has been selected through an open call to the membership by Josephine Flynn, an artist and associate member; Emma Cocker, a writer, Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and S1 Trustee; and David Martin, Assistant Curator at S1 Artspace.

Open Wed – Sat | 12 – 6pm

Units 4a-6b
Trafalgar Court
Milton Street
Sheffield
S1 4JU

http://www.s1artspace.org

Inspirational Blaschka: Making Fact Making Fiction

2008-10-09T03:59:00.001-07:00

10 September - 22 March 2009

National Glass Centre, Sunderland

Making fact Making fiction, seeks to investigate and respond to the process employed in the creation of the Blaschka models, by instigating a making process which reflects the method and circumstances in which the original models were produced.
Harrington has commissioned two artists, Kate Allen (Sheffield) and Helena Kagebrand (Stockholm, Sweden) to produce a series of drawings, which are then interpreted in to glass objects by Harrington and lampworkers Brian Jones and Norman Veitch of Wearside Glass Sculptures.

The exhibition, shown alongside the original Blaschka models, will present drawings by Allen and Kagebrand, the resulting series of glass objects and a short film made by artist Katie Davies (Sheffield) that documents the making process of one of the glass pieces. The final outcome being a dialogue between drawings, glass models and film.

http://www.nationalglasscentre.com/

The Glass Archive

2008-10-09T03:58:00.001-07:00

5 July - 7th September 2008

National Glass Centre, Sunderland

http://www.nationalglasscentre.com/

Lost and Found

2008-10-09T03:47:00.000-07:00

8 January - 19 January 2008

View Point Gallery, Plymouth

Artists Talk: Tuesday 8th January 2008

In an attempt to answer the question; “and what do you do?" the talk will explore Harrington's increasingly broad practice, and examine through examples of recent work and projects, the difficulty of answering this question by using existing terms, such as artist, designer, craftsperson.

The talk's title 'The possibilities of a schizophrenic existence', suggests an identity where change and difference can be fully exploited, where different modes, personalities and interests can be embraced; a space for fluctuation; a space to change ones mind.

Site Platform: A Conference for The Glass Archive

2008-10-09T03:43:00.000-07:00

28th November -1 December 07

Site Gallery, Sheffield

The Glass Archive is a collection of over eighty novels containing the word ‘glass’ in the title. For A Conference for The Glass Archive, five individuals including artists George Henry Longly, Kate Allen & Chris Henry Clarke, freelance writer Anna Taylor and materials scientist Dr Mark Miodownik have been invited to investigate and make personal responses to the content of the archive.

Taking place over four days, A Conference for the Glass Archive will provide daily public access to The Glass Archive, daily one-hour readings (from four novels over four days) and culminate in the delivery of five presentations on Saturday 1st December at 2pm. The event will be chaired by artist Dan Robinson.

A Conference for The Glass Archive encourages a shift of focus in our understanding of this material. The project sits within a wider context of material investigation, in which sculptors and artists explore emotional and intellectual connections to physical materials.

http://www.sitegallery.org/exhibitions/view.php?id=164