Gen Harrison: Purveyor of Inky Joy
‘typochondriacs’ is the print name for Gen Harrison. It is all in the inky joy of words and making.
My practice has foundations but is not exclusive to the medium of letterpress. I am interested in language, history, ‘ephemory’ and place.
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Exhibitions
2024
Reasons to be Cheerful (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 30 Nov | 21 Dec
Press Play (Joint) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 19 October | 8 November
Creating Connections (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, 9 | 17 September
Brush & Beyond (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 10 August | 30 August
2023
Making Waves (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 2 | 23 December
Change*able (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, 2 | 6 October
100 Days Project Scotland (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, March
2022
Pattern Books (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, December
Change*able (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, 23 September | 2 October
Postcards for Perec (Group) — Special Collections Library, Cardiff University, Aug
Ghosts in the Machine (Group) — World Book Night, Bower Ashton Library, April
Postcards for Perec (Group) — Bath Spa University, January | February
2021
Nature Works (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, December
Postcards for Perec (Group) — Winchester School of Art, Sept | November
Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, July | August
The Herbarium (Group) — Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, 20 April | 30 June
2020
Reverting to Type 2020 (Group) — Standpoint Gallery, London, 4 Dec | 31 Jan 2021
Re:connections (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 27 Nov | 19 Dec
United in Isolation (Group) — Online Exhibition, June | 14 August
Hot Bed Press 20:20 (Group) — Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, February
Exquisite Book Project (Group) — Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, 24 Jan | 26 March
2019
Combine (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, 3 | 11 December
Dialect (Joint) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 25 Oct | 15 Nov
Souvenir — Art Walk Porty, Portobello, 7 | 15 September
Size Matters (Group) — Fringe Arts Bath, 24 May | 9 June
Print Matters (Group) — WrocÅ‚aw, Poland, 1 May | 31 May
Technically Speaking (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, 8 | 20 April
Concrete Collective (Joint) — Fresh Arts, Southmead Hospital, 15 March | 15 June
Concrete Collective (Group) — Centrespace, Bristol, 10 | 15 January
2018
Interruptions (Group) — Felios Foundation, Athens, 3 | 28 October
Offset (Group) — The Quarry, Weston Super Mare, 7 | 28 June
Found on the Isthmus (Group) — Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, 1 | 30 April
Bound to Bristol (Group) — F Block, UWE, Bower Ashton, 20 | 23 March
2017
ABC (Joint) — Bower Ashton Library, UWE, 28 September | 1 November
Offset (Group) — Christmas Steps, Bristol, 29 August | 3 September
FAIRS book | print
2024
BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol
Bookmarks, Edinburgh College of Art
Stroud Wayzgoose
2023
St Bride's Wayzgoose
Bookmarks, Edinburgh College of Art
2022
Innerleithen Open Studios
Cardrona Summer Fayre
Shipley Wayzgoose
BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol
Bookmarks, Edinburgh College of Art
Stroud Wayzgoose
2019
Artists’ Book Market, Portobello, Edinburgh
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BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol
2018
ArtBook Berlin, Berlin, Germany 16 | 18 November
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Southampton Wayzgoose, Southampton 22 September
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Indie Book & Zine Fair, Out of the Blue, Edinburgh 21 July
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Shipley Wayzgoose, Shipley 9 June
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Turn The Page, The Forum, Norwich 25 | 26 May
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Swansea Zine Fair, Volcano, Swansea 19 May
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Self-Publishing Artists’ Market, Baltic, Gateshead 21 April
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Counter Art Book Fair, Plymouth 17 March
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Artists’ Book Market, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 17 | 18 February
2017
ArtBook Berlin, Berlin, Germany 17 | 19 November
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Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London 9 | 10 November
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World’s Tiniest Zine Fair, Paper Mountain, Australia 18 February
PUBLICATIONS
2020
ToCall No. 9
2019
The Blue Notebook Volume 13 No 2, Spring–Summer 2019
COLLECTIONS
Bower Ashton Library UWE Artists Book Collection ( Various)
The National Library of Scotland (earth/heart)
Scottish Gallery of Modern Art (tiksel talk)