About

            ­Marcus Harris is a London based stone carver / sculptor. Half Egyptian, half English, he draws upon his experience in Egypt and the West, and on a family background that oscillates between the artistic and the academic. His works are an expression of the intuitive, intellectual and emotional response to the organic, cultural and metaphysical.        

  Educated in England he grew up in the classical fine art, as well as the contemporary, art world. After attaining his BA in Art theory from university in London he spent several years in New York where he attended the School of Visual Arts. From there he worked in Sotheby's, then in Contemporary Chinese art and then in commercial photography. As a photographic artist, much of the work on the Middle East, he has been shown in the US, the UK and much of Europe. All interspersed, with constant trips to Egypt - a place of family, memory, and inspiration.

The transition from the two dimensional to carving stone marked a further artistic development and a long held desire to reconnect with his roots, the elemental and the natural.

          His work focuses on the expression of energy, as a feeling and force in itself and as an emotional reaction to the experiential and the internalization of the prevalent discourse. Often starting with the simplicity of identifiable and conventionally recognizable forms, employing what he calls the “onomatopoeia of line”, and steered through the prism of his own sensibility, his works explore the manner in which they digress, devolve and change and in so doing provide a metaphor for so much.

Small in size, more ambitious in scope, his carvings invite a collaboration with the viewer who is encouraged to touch the work as a way to reconnect with the self.

Harris’ stone works are part of permanent collections in the UK and the US, have been shown in numerous group and solo shows and a film of him in collaboration in his studio was shown at the Venice Biennale 2019.