Carol Harrison

I am a 56 year old Grandmother/Student living life back to front. The challenge of learning a new process brought me to the Royal College of Art. I have many creative and constructive skills; drawing, painting, collage, print, knitting, sewing, making all self- taught and practice based. I think with my hands and problem solving is at the core of what I do. My views are anti-elitist. I believe that all creative expression is Art. Art is for Everyone and can be by Anyone. I made my first animation in 2007 as the final project for a degree in writing. In the combination of forms; drawing / telling stories / relating experience, there was a way to express my reaction to where we were in the world in a visual way and a perspective both personal and political. Age brings another Lens. My MA project A Memoir looks back 50 years to document the time and place I grew up in specific detail. I’ve had space to collaborate, experiment and develop my own film making process. It is the discovery in the process that motivates me to do such labour intensive work. My method; an immersion in documentary research, to support the world building and reconstruction of my own visual, spatial and sensory memory. I wanted to incorporate and reframe the source material into something new, using rudimentary methods and a hands-on approach to make a 3d physical environment / puppets and 2d cut-out work in stop-motion.

I’ve just begun to explore the creative possibilities of using film in this way and will be working on ideas for what to do next.