Harun Morrison

Harun Morrison is an artist and writer whose work often employs collaborative processes. His practice spans spatial design, text, video and sound. His 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 (notably sewage, administrative systems and the gas and electric company the National Grid).

He was the 20/21 recipient of the Wheatley Fine Art Fellowship, hosted by Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University and Eastside Projects; this concluded with his recent solo exhibition ‘Experiments With Everyday Objects’. His forthcoming novel, The Escape Artist will be published by Book Works in 2023. Since 2006, Harun has co-steered the collective practice, They Are Here, with Helen Walker. He is also a trustee of the Black Cultural Archive (est. 1981) Harun is currently repairing and re-designing a garden space for Mind Sheffield in partnership with Arts Catalyst, working on a community garden for Bootle Library in Merseyside with Rule of Threes and making a series of long term interventions in the courtyard of a psychiatric intensive care unit in Hammersmith.

 

 

 

 


Learn more about Harun Morrison's written MA thesis (DAI, 2020): How Does The City Speak on Lockdown?
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Learn more about Harun Morrison's 20 minute presentation  Score for an Invisible Man for the AEROPONIC ACTS 2020 at Radio Kootwijk, August 2020. 
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Harun Morrison returned to DAI as guest writer for the AEROPONIC ACTS 2021 and as an alumni member of the DAI's  Admission Committee.
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Follow Harun's "Life after DAI" by means of his website and Instagram