John Wood and Paul Harrison

John Wood and Paul Harrison have been collaborating since 1991 and produced their first work Board in 1993. They explore how we interact with the world around us, highlighting the ordinary, the absurd and the accidental. Wood and Harrison are fascinated by architecture and design and how we engage with our environment in unintended ways. They explore the human tendency to improvise or mess things up, arguably in a good way. Their works form a kind of reference manual for how to do, make, build, or draw things that you probably never want to do, make, build, or draw. They do it for you, even though you didn’t ask them to. During the past 15 years there have been radical developments in their work, shifting from almost exclusively video work to a practice that incorporates multiple ways of examining themes first explored in their screen-based works. Now across video, sculpture, painting and drawing, they continue to demonstrate the triumphs and tribulations of living life and making art.