EXHIBITIONS, awards, PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
EXHIBITION (Eclectic Melbourne): April 12-19 2024, Fitzroy Arts Collective, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (THREE): March 7-29 2024, North Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Annual Open): March 2 - April 1 2024, Contemporary Art Society of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (What You Love): Feb 23 - March 8 2024, Fitzroy Arts Collective, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Conceptual): Jan 12-14 2024, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION (Buy or Cry): Dec 13-26 2023, Sol Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Postcard): Dec 10 2023 - Feb 11 2024, Linden New Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Xmas Salon): Dec 7 2023 - Jan 13 2024, Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Summer Salon): Nov 25 - Dec 17 2023, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Off The Wall): Nov 22 - Dec 22 2023, Firestation Print Studio, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Travel): Sept 22 - Oct 04 2023, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION (Photography Show of the Year): April 28 - May 8 2023, Fitzroy Arts Collective, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION: March 4 - April 10 2023, Contemporary Art Society of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Art Open): Feb 24 - March 7 2023, Fitzroy Arts Collective, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Street): Jan 13-25 2023, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
AWARD: 2022 Photographer of the Year, Australian Photography Magazine - Commendation, B&W Portfolio section
EXHIBITION (Xmas Salon): Dec 12 2022 - Jan 31 2023, Magnet Galleries, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Postcard): Dec 10 2022 - Feb 26 2023, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Exploration 23): Dec 9-31 2022, Fitzroy Arts Collective & Studio 66, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (SMALL!): Dec 6-17 2022, 45 Downstairs, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Off The Wall): Nov 25 2022 - Jan 22 2023, Firestation Print Studio, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Summer Salon): Nov 25 - Dec 18 2022, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (The General Public): Nov 25 - Dec 10 2022, 99% Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Zan, Zendeghi, Azadi): Nov 11-25 2022, Ladder Art Space, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION (Night Photography): Nov 2022, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION (The X-ray Files): October 2022, BlackCat Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (joint)
EXHIBITION: August 2022, Alternating Current Art Space, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION: August 2022, Art No.23 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (group)
EXHIBITION: July 2022, Art No.23 Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION (Conceptual): July 2022, Chania International Photo Festival, Chania, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: (Conceptual) June 2022, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: (Life In The Pandemic) Jan/Feb 2022, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: (Xmas Salon) Nov/Dec 2021, Magnet Photography Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION: (Fine Art) Oct/Nov 2021, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: (Cityscapes) Oct 2021, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: August 2021, Chania International Photo Festival, Chania, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: (Fifty Squared Art Prize) June/July 2021, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
MAGAZINE: EYE-Photo Magazine, Feb 2021 (single image)
BOOK: Inoventa Awards ‘best-of’ collection, Jan 2021 (single image)
AWARD: 2020 Neutral Density (ND) Awards - Honorable Mention Fine Art: Conceptual section
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION: (Moments of Color) Dec 2020 - March 2021, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: (Portrait) Oct/Nov 2020, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: (Fine Art) October 2020, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: Oct/Nov 2020, Gallery 40, Brighton Photo Fringe, Brighton, UK (joint)
MAGAZINE: Brighton Journal, September 2020, ‘Artist of the Month’ (multiple images)
AWARD: 2020 PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Honorable Mention, Fine Art (single) section
AWARD: 2020 Capture Magazine, Emerging Photographers, Commended, Art Portfolio section
EXHIBITION: August 2020, Chania International Photo Festival, Chania, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: (Street) July 2020, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: (Red) July 2020, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: (Monochrome) March 2020, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: Royal Arts Prize, February 2020, London, UK (group)
AWARD: 2019 Australian Photography Magazine, Photographer Of The Year, ‘Top 40’ single image section
AWARD: 2019 Australian Photography Magazine, Photographer Of The Year, Highly Commended, portfolio section
AWARD: 2019 Tokyo International Foto Awards - Honorable Mention, Fine Art section
AWARD: 2019 Neutral Density (ND) Awards - Honorable Mentions (x2), Fine Art section
AWARD: 2019 Redlands International Photographic Exhibition - Highly Commended
AWARD: 2019 Budapest International Foto Awards - Honorable Mention, Fine Art portfolio section
AWARD: 2019 Budapest International Foto Awards - Honorable Mention, Fine Art single section
EXHIBITION: (In The Shadows) November 2019, VAC Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION": (Abandoned Buildings) November 2019, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
MAGAZINE: October 2019, ‘Fine Eye’ Magazine (Austria, fine art, featured artist, multiple images)
MAGAZINE: September 2019, ‘Collection’ Magazine (Lebanon, fashion/art, single image)
MAGAZINE: August 2019, ‘Fine Eye’ Magazine (Austria, fine art, single image)
BOOK: September 2019, ‘The Art of Building’ (UK, fine art/architecture, single image)
EXHIBITION: (Fine Art) September 2019, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: August 2019, Chania International Photo Festival, Chania, Greece (group)
AWARD: 2019 Fine Art Photography Awards, Winners Group, conceptual section
EXHIBITION: (Portrait: March 2019, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece (group)
EXHIBITION: Royal Arts Prize, February 2019, London, UK (group)
AWARD: 2018 Australian Photography Magazine, Photographer Of The Year, Highly Commended, People & Portrait section
AWARD: 2018 Australian Photography Magazine, Photographer Of The Year, Highly Commended, Travel section
AWARD: 2018 Tokyo International Foto Awards - Bronze Winner, portfolio section
REVIEW (TAFF): Body Parts III & IV, October 15, 2018 (‘Canvas and Crumpets’)
“If you’ve read Canvas and Crumpets before, you’ll know that I am literally obsessed with bodies (writes US arts blogger, Chloe Hayman). A lot of the work I’m drawn to deals with the destructive impact of narrow beauty standards and the act of radical self-love. But Richard Harris showed a different interpretation of the human form, one that I haven’t often considered, and I was very intrigued. The artist’s deconstructed mannequins reek of morbid eroticism, and I have made it my mission to unravel the psychological impact of these carefully arranged photographs.”
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EXHIBITION: October 2018, The Anti Art Fair, London, UK (group)
REVIEW: Body Parts III - Strings Attached portfolio (10 images) August 22, 2018 (LensCulture)
"You have some very strong work in your submission. Your imagery overall is highly compelling. I particularly enjoy images one, two and ten - these strike me as rather quiet and understated images and this wonderfully belies...the undercurrent of violence or menace In the pictures. There is a degree of this in all of the pictures, particularly also images three, five, six and eight. There is an interesting juxtaposition of fluid time and motion in this group of pictures that marries well with the sense of stillness in images one, two and ten. I find the more brightly colored pictures - numbers four, seven and nine, to be outliers somewhat, as the inclusion of bright and saturated colors begins to shift the emphasis in the series to these pictures."
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EXHIBITION: (Summer Salon) August 2018, Martyrs' Gallery, Lewes, UK (group)
EXHIBITION: (Summer Salon) July 2018, Candid Arts Gallery, London, UK (group)
REVIEW: Body Parts V - ‘Fractured Dreams’ series, Body Parts, May 2018 (LensCulture)
"Your overall approach is highly commendable, and I applaud your concept and message. In addition, I think the importance and voice of your work will find a welcome audience within the larger fine art community. Your process is quite original, in that you create original images and then project those images onto both white mannequin body parts and a flat surface. This approach, of course, is highly suggestive and foregrounds not only issues of race and colonialism but also the subjugation of and profit from bodies in a historical sense. The displacement of the two-dimensional projection as the light rays fall across the various surfaces and textures is quite compelling, and I enjoy how the body parts disrupt the unity and cohesion of the projection of the children."
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EXHIBITION: (Beyond Bluestone) March 2019, VAC Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION: (Modules) February 2018, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy (group)
REVIEW: Body Parts II - ‘Locked-IN’ series, Body Parts, November 2017 (LensCulture)
"Thank you for your entry into LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Awards 2016, Series Category. The submission of ten images from your Body Parts project’s second iteration, Locked-IN, is cohesive in its strong use of descriptive side-lighting and graphic lines suggesting imprisonment or entrapment. I took the liberty of looking at your website to get further information on where you are going with this series and what really struck me is your use of mannequins to support your intent. There is something so impersonal, yet universal about these fabrications. Devoid of relatable features, (the eyes are noteworthy for their absence of detail), we can project ourselves onto these objects. Thank you, again, Richard, for a strong submission. I look forward to seeing more of your work!"
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AWARD: 2017 Tokyo International Foto Awards - Honorable Mention, Black & White section
AWARD: 2017 Australian Photography Magazine, Photographer of the Year, Highly Commended, Black & White section
AWARD: 2017 Neutral Density Awards - Honorable Mention
EXHIBITION: May/June 2017, Foyer Gallery, Jubilee Library, Brighton, UK (solo)
EXHIBITION: (Show Of Hands) April/May 2017, Manningham Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION: Nov/Dec 2016, ‘Compared to What’ at MADE Gallery, Brighton, UK (joint)
EXHIBITION: Oct/Nov 2016, Talk Dark & Coffee Gallery/Cafe, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
EXHIBITION: Sept/Dec 2016, London Photo Festival, Bridge Lounge Gallery, London, UK (group)
EXHIBITION: August 2016, RMIT annual exhibition, Melbourne, Australia (group)
EXHIBITION: July/Dec 2016, Photographic Angle UK tour (group)
AWARD: 2016 Tokyo International Foto Awards - Honorable Mention (single image)
AWARD: 2016 International Photo Awards - Honorable Mention (single image)
COMPETITION: 2016 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize - Semi-Finalist (single image)
COMPETITION/EXHIBITION: 2016 London Photo Festival - Finalist (single image)
COMPETITION: 2016 Brighton Photo Fringe - Official Selection for launch event (single image)
COMPETITION/EXHIBITION: 2016, Photographic Angle - Finalist, portfolio section
AWARD: 2016 Moscow International Foto Awards - Honorable Mention, portfolio section
REVIEW: Body Parts I - ‘Locked-OUT’ series, Body Parts, May 2016 (LensCulture)
"You use dummies to describe a crisis and set them up as human characters. Everything is set to create a sense of distance: the dummies are black and white and the back colours are very unreal, suggesting a nightmare, with vivid violet and orange that makes us think of German expressionism. The portfolio is very well visually balanced by clever use of the dummy’s skin colour and choice of colours for the background. The story is well built: like a scenario, each pictures shows an action and adds a layer to the story, and it gets more and more intense till the last picture. The use of dolls or puppets is common in the psychiatric field to help people tell their stories as it is easier to describe what happened to the dolls than to oneself. In the same way, your series skins the characters and situations to their essence so that anyone can understand them. The portfolio is very powerful in itself, but also rich with possibilities for other areas."
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