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Dr Harrison See (b. 1990) is an artist, arts researcher, industrial designer and emerging curator who in 2022 completed his PhD in the School of Arts and Humanities (SAH) at Edith Cowan University (ECU). During his PhD, See pursued his interest in allegorical landscapes as a means to explore cultural divergence and plurality—culminating in his final solo exhibition of paintings in 2022. Not including this PhD exhibition, See has undertaken 6 solo shows, 6 artist residencies and 9 collaborative exhibitions, in Perth and Asia. See completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts at ECU in 2015 after receiving the ‘Louise Macfie Painting Prize’. In 2016 he was awarded a New Colombo Plan (NPC) scholarship that funded his honours research in Shanghai. After being awarded 1st class honours for this research, See extended his NPC funding and returned to China in 2017 for a 3-month artist’s residency in Xiamen. In 2019 See was awarded a ‘Research Training Program Scholarship’ and returned to ECU to undertake his practice-led PhD research into dialogic cross-cultural collaboration. During See’s PhD research, he published and/or co-published 4 conference papers and facilitated multiple interdisciplinary research groups, as well as acted as a SAH representative for the Vice Chancellor’s Student Advisory Forum and a HDR representative on the ECU Galleries committee. See has also been the co-recipient of; 2 SAH ‘Research Culture Grants’; a co-recipient/solo-recipient of 3 DLGSC ‘Arts U-15k’ grants; and a ‘Yagan Square Digital Tower Screen Initiative’ grant. Since 2015 he has worked at multiple art education institutions and/or galleries. See is currently a sessional tutor for SAH (ECU), as well as a research officer for the ECU node of the Australian Research Council ‘Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child’.

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Harrison See (2022), I Send You Swans... (after encounters with Mah and Lau) [detail], oil on canvas, 152.5cm x 91.5cm. Photograph: Patricia Amorim

Education

2022      PhD (Visual Arts), Edith Cowan University (ECU), The Australian Research
2017      Bachelor of Arts Honours (First Class), Edith Cowan University (ECU), WA

2016      Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Edith Cowan University (ECU), WA

2011      Bachelor of Arts (Design), Majoring in Industrial Design, Curtin University, WA

Awards & Grants

2023      Arts U-15k, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC), WA – $15,000 (co-curated project)

2023      Innovative Application of Research Methods Award (co-recipient), DCAM, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child)

2021      Arts U-15k, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC), WA – $14,980 (solo-curated project)

2021     Arts U-15k, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC), WA – $4,050 (co-curated project)

2020      Ellenbrook Overall Prize, Ellenbrook-Swan Art Award, WA – $1000

2020     Yagan Square Digital Tower Screen Initiative (co-recipient), Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority, WA – $1,000 (co-recipient)

2020      Research Culture Grant (co-recipient), School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, WA – $400 (co-recipient)

2019      Research Culture Grant (co-recipient), School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, WA – $400 (co-recipient)

2018      Research Training Program Scholarship, Federal Government of Australia – $85,000

2015      The Louise Macfie Painting Prize, Edith Cowan University, WA – $2,000
2015      New Colombo Plan Scholarship, Federal Government of Australia – $35,000
2015      New Colombo Plan Student Mobility Grant, Edith Cowan University, WA – $1,200

2010      Design Award for Excellence, Curtin University, WA

Solo Exhibitions

2022      Far-Away Island, Spectrum Project Space (ECU Galleries), Mount Lawley, WA

2019      Hollow Flight, Spectrum Project Space (ECU Galleries), Mount Lawley, WA

2018      Weightless, Kent Street Gallery, Victoria Park, WA

2018      Urban Tree, The Lobby, Swanbourne, WA

2018      Physical Mindfulness of Painting, Mundaring Arts Centre (Gallery 2), Mundaring, WA

2017      Tower of Modern | 当潮之塔, Chinese European Art Centre | 中国欧洲艺术中心, Xiamen

2016      The Nature of Wanting, Studio 281, Maylands, WA

Curation

2024      Trails Between Lion and Swan (co-curation), Singapore Art Week (SAW), SCULPTURE2052, Singapore (upcoming January)

2023      Crossroads and Convergences, Nyisztor Studio, Melville/Palmyra, WA.

2023      HERENOW23: In-Between-ness, Fringe World Festival, Spectrum Project Space (ECU Galleries), Mount Lawley, WA.

Artist Residencies

2021      Perth College, Mount Lawley, WA – 1 week(s)

2020      Fringe World Festival, Spectrum Project Space, Mount Lawley, WA – 4 week(s)

2018      Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, Victoria Park, WA – 10 week(s)

2018      Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring, WA – 6 week(s)

2017      Chinese European Art Centre | 中国欧洲艺术中心, Xiamen – 3 month(s)

Collaborative Exhibitions

2021       A Place We Call Home, Stala Contemporary, West Perth, WA

2021      Polyphony: CERAH Exchange Showcase, Fringe World Festival, Gallery 25, Mount Lawley, WA

2020       Intermission, Yagan Square Digital Tower, Perth, WA

2020      Nexus: A Group Show, Perth Fringe Festival, Spectrum Project Space, Mount Lawley, WA

2018       Paradise’s Parasite III | 寄生者 III, Spectrum Project Space, ECU, Mount Lawley, WA

2017       Passage Self Strange, Turner Galleries (Engine Room 2), Northbridge, WA

2017       Paradise’s Parasite II | 寄生者II, The Sino-British College | 英皇茶室, Shanghai

2017       Paradise’s Parasite | 寄生者, Hujiang Gallery | 沪江画廊, Shanghai

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024      Trails Between Lion and Swan (curated by Harrison See & Desmond Mah), Singapore Art Week, SCULPTURE2052, Singapore [Jan]

2022      Divergent Terrain (curated by Kelsey Ashe), Old Customs House, Fremantle, WA

2022      City of Joondalup IAP | Invitation Art Prize (curated by Julia Robinson-White), Whitford City, Joondalup

2021     Nexus: A Group Show (curated by Lyndall Adams & Nicola Kaye), Gallery 25 (ECU Galleries), Mount Lawley, WA

2021     Industrial Mythos (curated by Greg Molloy), INTOO Studios, Northbridge, WA

2021     ION II | In Our Nature (curated by Monique Tippet), Lost Eden Creative ARI, Dwellingup, WA

2021     The Mandorla Art Award (curated by Lyn Di Ciero), Stala Contemporary, West Perth, WA

2020      Tenth International Exhibition of Traditional Fine Arts | 第十届国际传统艺术邀请展,  Shanghai Art Collection Museum, Shanghai

2020      Tied Up With String (curated by Clare Stroud), Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring, WA

2019      Nexus: A Group Show (curated by Lyndall Adams & Nicola Kaye), Gallery 25, ECU, Mount Lawley, WA

2018      Sculptures on the Scarp (curated by Amy Pepper), Darlington Arts Festival, Darlington, WA

2017      Stations of the Cross (curated by Claire Bushby), Wesley Church, Perth, WA / Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton, WA

2017      Extended Focus (curated by Gregory Pryor), Spectrum Project Space, ECU, Mount Lawley, WA

2017      34th Annual Sculpture Survey Exhibition (curated by R. M. Gomboc), Gomboc Gallery & Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA

2016      Third Space Project (curated by Clive Barstow), Hujiang Gallery | 沪江画廊, Shanghai

2015      IMPACT 9 International Printmaking Conference (curated by artists from Royal College of Art), China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
2015      32nd Sculpture Survey (curated by R. M. Gomboc), Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA             

2014      31st Sculpture Survey (curated by R. M. Gomboc), Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA

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