Harun Morrison ~ Keywords: boat, knots, ropes, cleet, starboard, bow, drift

Harun Morrison is an artist and writer whose work often employs collaborative processes. His practice spans spatial design, text, video and sound. Harun's ongoing interest in the shifting potentials of civic space is informed by being a boater, which in turn prompts questions about land ownership in relation to itinerancy, and the degree to which living on water affects one’s relationship with the environment and state infrastructure.

He is a former associate artist with Greenpeace UK and Designer and Researcher in Residence at V&A Dundee, Scotland. His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works in 2025. 

Since 2006, Harun has collaborated with Helen Walker as part of the collective practice They Are Here. Harun has recently contributed to the biennial Sonic Acts 2024: Spell of The Sensuous, BALATORIUM, a series of cultural events and a science communication project, as part of the Veszprém-Balaton 2023 European Capital of Culture, group exhibition Chronic Hunger, Chronic Desire in Timișoara, Romania, 2023 and the Bamako Biennial, Mali, 2020. Solo exhibitions in the last few years include, Dolphin Head Mountain at the Horniman Museum, London (2022 -23), Mark The Spark at Nieuwe Vide project space in Haarlem, Netherlands (2022) and Experiments with Everyday Objects, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, (2021). Harun continues to develop and repair a garden for Mind Sheffield, a mental health support service, as part of the Arts Catalyst research project, Emergent Ecologies, and is producing an evolving publication, Environmental Justice Questions commissioned by Mossutställningar, which he continues to circulate. @harunishere (bio updated Nov 2024)