GRIMM is pleased to announce the representation of Manchester, UK-based artist Tommy Harrison (b. 1996, Stockport, UK). GRIMM’s first presentation with Harrison will be a solo exhibition of new paintings, titled Tone Cluster, on view at the New York location at 54 White Street in Tribeca from 12 May to 30 June, 2023.
Tommy Harrison’s work is preoccupied with the process of constructing and collapsing the painted image. Demonstrating a highly sophisticated range of techniques and influences, the artist’s work draws on various painterly traditions from the High Renaissance to the present day. Each work is ultimately concerned with the technical journey that is taken to arrive at a composition, built up through an unfolding process over several months, beginning with geometric forms that lead to a range of possible outcomes before being resolved into dark, mysterious landscapes and uncanny interiors.
Harrison is currently studying for an MFA in painting at the Manchester School of Art (2021-23), for which he received in 2020 the Haworth Trust Painting Scholarship. In 2022 he had a solo exhibition titled Frozen Mid-Melt at Pipeline Contemporary, London (UK). Harrison’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Chapelle de l’Humanité, Paris (FR); Islington Mill, Salford (UK); Elysium Gallery, Swansea (UK) where he was shortlisted for the Beep International Painting Prize; Bankley Gallery, Manchester (UK); and Holden Gallery, Manchester (UK).
