Annie Harrison

Annie Harrison creates installation, performance, film, and participatory art. She is interested in the historic and contemporary relationship between people and place.

During lockdown she has been working on ‘108 Garments’, creating underwear to memorialise 108 girls who, between 1893-99, lived at the Methodist ‘Rescue Home’ in Reddish, learning to work in service.

Her participatory work includes research project ‘Clogging On’ about Age-Friendliness in the Calder Valley. Her new project Ebb and Flow, involves walking downstream from Mytholmroyd to Hull with the art historian Bob Gaunt, exploring the upstream flow from the former City of Culture.

Film commissions include ‘Picturing the Past’ for Saddleworth Museum about local sheep farming traditions, and ‘Drawing out the Threads’ for Salts Mill, about the textile industry.

Annie’s performance work includes the ‘Orphan Series’ about being an adult orphan, ‘Morning Service’, developed for the Potentia exhibition at Blok Projects, Sheffield, and ‘Kelp Twin’, an exploration of evolutionary development.