Paul Harrison

John Wood was born in Hong Kong in 1969 and Paul Harrison in Wolverhampton in 1966. Both trained at Bath College and they have been working together since 1993. Their videos present intricate visual scenarios that refer to a range of human processes. The artists use the body's sculptural elements as a way to construct a vocabulary of shared, physical and emotional experiences. Recent exhibitions include New British Video, MOMA, New York (1997), this other world of ours, TV Gallery, Moscow (1999), Physical Evidence, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (1999), and Obstacle Course and other works, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and tour (1999). Their work has been widely shown in Europe, South America and the USA, and at screenings at the National Theatre, Tate Modern and Lux Centre, in London, and Stuttgarter Filmwinter, as well as being broadcast on Channel 4, BBC2, ARTE in France, and German and Spanish TV. Wood lives and works in Bristol Harrison lives and works in Shropshire.
—The British Art Show 5

"Since they began collaborating in 1993, John Wood and Paul Harrison have created a series of playful and beguiling videoworks which are distinguished as much by their droll sense of humour as their unerring economy of execution. Played out against a minimalist, monochrome backdrop, or within the sealed-off space of the monitor itself, each of the works involves the presence of one or both of the artists, either as the butt of an extended site-gag or as the trigger for a spiralling, visually-surprising conceit."
—Leeds International Film Festival 2000