Both alumni of Bath College of Higher Education, the internationally acclaimed video and experimental artists John Wood and Paul Harrison have been collaborating since 1993.
Creating work at their studio at Spike Island, they have an interest in playing with scale and movement, particularly in terms of how the human body relates to the environment surrounding it.
Their art has been exhibited at MOMA and in Times Square, New York, as well as Tate Britain, Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Palais de Tokyo.
The pair have been announced as the recipients of the University of Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus (TQEC) public art commission, and will be making a new permanent artwork to be installed on the site.
Construction is well underway at TQEC, with the new campus set to be open in the Autumn of 2026. When complete, it will be a base for 4,600 students, 650 staff and multiple industry and civic partners, and will be an important new home for research, education and innovation led by the University of Bristol.
