David’s solo exhibition, “Works on Paper”, is a survey of work during the past twenty years. It is somewhat chronological but more importantly it shows his evolution of concepts and his experiments in creating space.His conceptual investigations into deconstruction, disintegration and decay are part of a Post-Modernist philosophy that has radically changed his approach to image making.

Deconstruction has its origins in literature and is evident in the work of the beat generation’s Jack Kerouac, and poets Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs. Burroughs did pioneering art work in what he called “cut ups” where he re-processed found images into new formats.

Recently David has worked with ‘alien material’, and deteriorating urban graffiti which he reprocesses in creating a re- appraisal or second look at what is often seen as vandalism. David works with his newly harvested material by using subtle colours and textures reorganizing and preparing them into complex geometric matrices which redefine abstraction and engage the viewer without recognizable external reference. This approach has lead him to reappraise his studio practice so that he now is investigating how his own paintings can be re approached, revisited and reprocessed in a manner that invites the viewer to see his work in a deconstructed and reordered way and by creating another dimension. The intellectual and the aesthetic challenges of these concepts leads David to new and endless possibilities of expression.

The work is described by critics as “intellectually stimulating, conceptually complex, and meditative. It has an impressive and rigorously experimental style.”

Jacek Malek: “Post-Structuralist works reflect the artist’s ongoing investigation of the inter-relationship between form and content, spacial concerns, the properties of the medium, and the incorporation of pure science in the object of art” For Harrison, geometric abstraction is about hidden meanings, analogies, and deliberate simplification.