PROJECT8 PRESENTS: Spencer Harrison
‘Semi/Permeable’
Opening Friday 8 May, 6–8pm
Artist talk Saturday 9 May, 3–4pm
‘Semi/Permeable’ investigates the dynamic space where opposites meet and negotiate; soft with hard, natural with artificial, order with disorder. These liminal spaces emerge not as static borders, but as zones of possibility.
Exhibition continues 9 May – 20 June
RSVP via link in bio
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Image: SPENCER HARRISON, Where Would I Be Without You, 2026. Acrylic paint, Plywood, Polyurethane Varnish, 74 × 50 × 97.5 cm
Spencer Harrison
Borderlands, 2026
Borderlands is a video work that reflects on the interplay between the human-made urban environment and the natural world. The work comprises four short sequences contrasting hard-edge geometric compositions with soft, organic fields of colour. These fields were built by layering footage of colours, textures and light captured from the natural landscape surrounding the artist’s home. The dialogue between structured and organic forms evokes the porous border between nature and the urban landscape, a boundary made fluid by the continuous cycles of construction, growth and decay.
As part of Spencer Harrison: Semi/Permeable, on view until 20 June.
@spenceroni
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Video: Spencer Harrison, Borderlands, 2026. 4K video, duration 8 minutes. Installation video by Spencer Harrison.
Spencer Harrison solo exhibition at Project8 Gallery presents his colourful geometric abstraction over a range of mediums @project8.gallery@spenceroni #abstraction #colour #geometric #artinstallation #artexhibition
Live stream of Spencer Harrison’s artist talk for Semi/Permeable, held Saturday 9 May ✨ For those who were unable to attend in person.
Semi/Permeable continues this week, Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–5pm at Project8
ARTIST TALK today at 3pm ✨
Join Spencer Harrison in the gallery this afternoon for an artist talk on Semi/Permeable.
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Images: Semi/Permeable opening event. Photos by Lucy Foster @lu_spent
Just Around the Corner, 2026.
A glimpse of one of the sculptural works from Spencer Harrison’s Semi/Permeable.
Opening tomorrow night, Friday 8 May, 6–8pm ✨
Artist talk Saturday 9 May, 3–4pm
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Image: SPENCER HARRISON, Just Around the Corner, 2026, Acrylic paint, Plywood, Polyurethane Varnish, Brass Hinges, 180 x 172.4 cm
SPENCER HARRISON: Semi/Permeable
Opens this Friday, 6-8pm
Semi/Permeable investigates the dynamic space where opposites meet and negotiate; soft with hard, natural with artificial, order with disorder. These liminal spaces emerge not as static borders, but as zones of possibility. Painting, drawing, sculpture and large-scale digital video draw on abstractions from daily life, the built environment and the natural world.
Curated by Kim Donaldson with Jiayang Zhang
Artist talk Saturday 9 May, 3–4pm
Exhibition continues 9 May – 20 June
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Image: Spencer Harrison, Free Fall 2026. Acrylic paint, vinyl on wall and floor, 669 x 228 x 157 cm. Photo: Spencer Harrison. @spenceroni
Spencer Harrison @spenceroni at work on a mural for his upcoming exhibition ‘Semi/Permeable’
Opening Friday 8 May, 6–8pm
Artist talk Saturday 9 May, 3–4pm
Exhibition continues until 20 June
PROJECT8 PRESENTS: Spencer Harrison
‘Semi/Permeable’
Opening Friday 8 May, 6pm
9 May – 20 June
Semi/Permeable investigates the dynamic space where opposites meet and negotiate: soft with hard, natural with artificial, order with disorder. These liminal spaces emerge not as fixed borders, but as zones of possibility.
Borrowing its title from cellular biology, the exhibition considers abstraction as a filter or threshold through which ideas, forms and perceptions flow.
The works juxtapose crisp lines over wash-stained papers and canvas; rigid structures intersect with organic flows, and precise forms contrast with imperfect natural surfaces. At this porous edge, clarity and ambiguity coexist, allowing new forms and insights to emerge.
An artist talk will be held on Saturday 9 May, 3–4pm.
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Image: Spencer Harrison, Structure 57, 2025. Coloured pencil and watercolour on watercolour paper, 29.7cm x 40cm.
From Saturday’s reading group for states of imbalance, held by Jen Valender within her exhibition (It is Necessary to) Learn to Swim.
Thanks to everyone who joined us!
Project8 is currently closed between exhibitions.
We reopen on Friday 8 May, 6pm, with a new exhibition by Spencer Harrison.
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Photos by Gabrielle Hall-Lomax
A thoughtful review of our current exhibitions—Jen Valender: (It is Necessary to) Learn to Swim and Chaohui Xie: 18 Generations—by Amélie Blanc @ameliebnc_ is now live on Artist Profile @artistprofile
You can read via the link in our bio.
Final day tomorrow. Closing 5pm, Saturday 11 April.
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Installation view: Jen Valender, (It is Necessary to) Learn to Swim, 2025. Photographed by Lucy Foster @lu_spent
Reminder: project8 reading circle this Saturday, 3pm. No pressure to perform, no expectation to have the right words. You can talk, listen or just sit. It’s also the final day of the exhibition. Link to register in bio.
Image: Jen Valender, Humanity's Wickedness (detail), (It is Necessary to) Learn to Swim. Photo: Lucy Foster @lu_spent@project8.gallery
