About this Event
John Wood and Paul Harrison: In Conversation
Internationally acclaimed artists John Wood and Paul Harrison have been working together since 1993, and their studio is at Spike Island in Bristol.
Following the launch of their new landmark artwork We Apologise for any Inconvenience Caused, at the new University of Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus, they will be discussing their practice and their relationship to the city, at Spike Island.
This talk forms part of the Autumn Art Lecture Series, which explores the public art programme for the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus.
About the series
Taking the public art programme for the new Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus (TQEC) as its starting point, the Autumn Art Lecture series for 2026 will examine how public art can contribute to the identity and character of a place. This series of four events opens a dialogue between art, innovation, heritage and civic identity.
The public art programme for TQEC was developed to embed creativity into the new campus and to encourage creative exchange and connection between the University and the wider city. Three new site-specific public art commissions offer distinctive responses to the new campus and its context, exploring its connections to innovation and industry, the waterways and green spaces that shape the site, and the communities that will define its future. The programme was delivered in partnership with the Contemporary Art Society *Consultancy.
The Autumn Art Lecture series is hosted by the University of Bristol's Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences.
Find out more about the other events in the Art, Place and Community: Autumn Art Lectures 2026 series.
If you have any questions about this event or the series as a whole, please contact [email protected].
About the speakers
John Wood and Paul Harrison
John Wood and Paul Harrison make works that form a kind of reference manual for how to do, make, build, or draw things that you probably never want to do, make, build, or draw. They do it for you. Even though you didn’t ask them to. This attempt to compile an encyclopaedia of the everyday, started in 1993 after they met at art college.
John Wood (b.1969, Hong Kong) and Paul Harrison (b.1966, Wolverhampton)
Event venue & nearby stays
Spike Island Art Gallery, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, United Kingdom
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