The Architecture of Space
With essays by Rick Newby and Glen R. Brown

This 50 page all-color publication contains over 200 images spanning the past three decades of Robert Harrison’s career. Focused on his large-scale site-specific architectural sculpture, the publication covers both his indoor and outdoor projects that have taken him around the world.

For the first time, see a visual timeline of Robert’s work from the early 1980’s through to the present, allowing the reader to see his development as an artist. Utilizing a wide variety of materials that have their roots in the ceramic arts, Robert explores his architectural vision through the uses of columns and arches, walls and floors, stacks and vessels. X’s and spirals. At mid-career his work has centered on the ‘architecture of space’ both indoors and out.

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Individual copies: $20. (USD) plus $4. shipping and handling. Please email Robert Harrison with inquiries.

Robert Harrison: Of Marks and Boundaries

Article by Glen R. Brown

Published in Ceramics Art and Perception (Sydney, Australia), no.56, 2004

Earthly Visions, Celestial Alignments: Robert Harrison's Accomplishment

This essay draws upon three earlier articles on the work of Robert Harrison by Rick Newby: "Robert Harrison: Shrines for Potters," published in American Ceramics (New York, NY), Autumn 1991; "Rooms within Rooms: The Installations of Robert Harrison, 19811992," first published in the catalog to the Robert Harrison exhibition, "Architecture without Walls," University of South Australia Art Museum, September-October, 1992, and reprinted, in slightly different form, in Ceramics: Art & Perception (Sydney, Australia), Winter 199293; and "Robert Harrison: Spirited Variations," published in Ceramic Review (London, United Kingdom), Spring 2000.
All quotes by Robert Harrison are drawn from a series of interviews with Rick Newby conducted between 1990 and 2000.

Rick Newby is a poet, editor, and critic living in Helena, Montana. His articles on contemporary sculptors have appeared in American Craft, American Ceramics, Ceramics: Art & Perception (Australia), Ceramic Review (United Kingdom), [high ground], and Sculpture. Newby's essay on the origins of the Archie Bray Foundation, co-written with Chere Jiusto, will appear in Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence (Holter Museum of Art/University of Washington Press, 2001).

Robert Harrison: Spirited Variations

by Rick Newby

Published in Ceramic Review (London, United Kingdom), Spring 2000.

Rooms within Rooms: The Installations of Robert Harrison, 1981-1992

by Rick Newby

First published in the catalog to the Robert Harrison exhibition, "Architecture without Walls," University of South Australia Art Museum, September 10-October 3, 1992; reprinted, in slightly different form, in Ceramics: Art & Perception (Sydney, Australia), Winter 1992-93.

Robert Harrison: Shrines for Potters

by Rick Newby

First published in American Ceramics (New York, NY), Autumn 1991; reprinted, in slightly different form, in Kinesis 4 (Whitefish, MT), Spring 1992