Harrison, Richard (b.1954)
Creator details
- Name
- Harrison, Richard (b.1954)
- Nationality
- British
- Biography
- Richard Harrison was born on 2 October 1954, the day dedicated to Guardian Angels, in Mill Road Hospital, Liverpool, England to an unmarried mother from Whitby, Yorkshire, and was adopted at twenty days old by a comfortable upper-middle-class mercantile family from Liverpool. He was educated at Aysgarth Preparatory School in North Yorkshire (1963-68), and then at Harrow Public School in North West London (1968-72). In 1973, he travelled down the West African coast from Dakar in Senegal to Douala in Cameroon as cadet purser on The Merchant Navy vessel MV Dalla. In September 1973, he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Medieval History, graduating in 1976. From 1981-1983, he studied Furniture Design at The London College of Furniture and in 1984 went to Chelsea School of Art, where he completed a BA degree in Fine Art in 1987 and an MA degree in Fine Art, Painting in 1988.
