Ikon is pleased to announce the continuation of Art at HMP Grendon, its artist residency at HMP Grendon, Buckinghamshire, for another three years (2024 – 2026). The residency has been generously funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust since 2010 and managed by Ikon since 2014.
Simon Harris, artist and printmaker, commences a new 18-month residency during which he will work with community members to produce new work to be showcased at HMP Grendon and Ikon Gallery.
Simon Harris is an artist, Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fine Art at University of Wolverhampton. Harris works across printmaking, photography and painting, pursuing a pictorial plane that references the cinematic surface as an abstracted image. A master printmaker, Harris has been instrumental in setting up the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Studio at HMP Grendon, training community members in the technical processes of printmaking through one-off workshops.
“Having already worked with the prisoners at HMP Grendon I have witnessed the impact that the art studio has on creative practice. I’m excited to continue to engage with the community, and to develop our shared artistic practices within the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Studio. I also plan to create the largest painting ever made in a prison, drawing on my continued research into critical theory of the image.” Simon Harris.