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5: Jessica Harrison - Floral displays

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ImageJessica Harrison, hosted by Rona Gray @ Bath Street

The main focus of Jessica’s research is a personal obsession with fear that generates the surreal, sinister and sometimes comical juxtapositions in her drawings and sculpture. The work in the exhibition consists of resin wax and mixed media.

Title of work - Floral displays

The eye, mouth and skin are tokens of a reflexive boundary in our existence, the points at which we establish life or death; the blink of an eye or the shrinking of a pupil, the breath exhaled from the mouth against a feather or a mirror, the cold or warm touch of skin. These are the points on which we hang our experience of embodiment, loading them with semiotic meaning and association. I use these physical elements in the work to explore how our response to the world is channelled through the body, with our construction of knowledge deeply rooted in a sense of touch.

www.jessicaharrison.co.uk

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 November 2011 21:26  

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Big Things on the Beach is a public art trust in Portobello, a seaside suburb close to the city centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was formed by a group of residents in 2003 to explore the potential of the seafront as a site for engagement with public artworks by both emerging and established artists.

Since 2004 we have commissioned artists to create substantial temporary artworks, trained ourselves and others in the process of commissioning public artworks through international site visits and guest lectures and successfully raised funding to these ends.

Our current project - The Big Welcome - is supported by Creative Scotland, Portobello & Craigmillar Neighbourhood Partnership and Edinburgh City Libraries