Gen Harrison: Purveyor of Inky Joy
‘typochondriacs’ is the print name for Gen Harrison. It is all in the inky joy of words and making.
My practice has foundations but is not exclusive to the medium of letterpress. I am interested in language, history, ‘ephemory’ and place.
My work is in the collections of:
Bower Ashton Library UWE Artists Book Collection
Edinburgh College
Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
Scottish Gallery of Modern Art
The National Library of Scotland
Exhibitions
2026
Fold | Found: 100 Days — Bower Ashton Library, UWE, 2 April | 30 June
Project Scotland Concertinas
Across the Fold (Group) — Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture and Design at Indiana University, USA, 11 | 27 March
2025
Across the Fold (Group) — Bower Ashton Library, 4 Dec | 31January
Home, Work, Love & Hope (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 28 Nov | 19 Dec
Technically Art (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, 16 | 20 September
Pattern Book — Framing Gallery, Innerleithen, 27 | 28 September
Postcards for Perec (Group), Institut Français, February
2024
Reasons to be Cheerful (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 30 Nov | 21 Dec
Press Play (Joint) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 19 October | 8 November
Creating Connections (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, 9 | 17 September
Brush & Beyond (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 10 August | 30 August
2023
Making Waves (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 2 | 23 December
Change*able (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, 2 | 6 October
100 Days Project Scotland (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, March
2022
Pattern Books (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, December
Change*able (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, 23 September | 2 October
Postcards for Perec (Group) — Special Collections Library, Cardiff University, Aug
Ghosts in the Machine (Group) — World Book Night, Bower Ashton Library, April
Postcards for Perec (Group) — Bath Spa University, January | February
2021
Nature Works (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, December
Postcards for Perec (Group) — Winchester School of Art, Sept | November
Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, July | August
The Herbarium (Group) — Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, 20 April | 30 June
2020
Reverting to Type 2020 (Group) — Standpoint Gallery, London, 4 Dec | 31 Jan 2021
Re:connections (Group) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 27 Nov | 19 Dec
United in Isolation (Group) — Online Exhibition, June | 14 August
Hot Bed Press 20:20 (Group) — Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, February
Exquisite Book Project (Group) — Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, 24 Jan | 26 March
2019
Combine (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, 3 | 11 December
Dialect (Joint) — Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 25 Oct | 15 Nov
Souvenir — Art Walk Porty, Portobello, 7 | 15 September
Size Matters (Group) — Fringe Arts Bath, 24 May | 9 June
Print Matters (Group) — Wrocław, Poland, 1 May | 31 May
Technically Speaking (Group) — Edinburgh College of Art, 8 | 20 April
Concrete Collective (Joint) — Fresh Arts, Southmead Hospital, 15 March | 15 June
Concrete Collective (Group) — Centrespace, Bristol, 10 | 15 January
2018
Interruptions (Group) — Felios Foundation, Athens, 3 | 28 October
Offset (Group) — The Quarry, Weston Super Mare, 7 | 28 June
Found on the Isthmus (Group) — Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, 1 | 30 April
Bound to Bristol (Group) — F Block, UWE, Bower Ashton, 20 | 23 March
2017
ABC (Joint) — Bower Ashton Library, UWE, 28 September | 1 November
Offset (Group) — Christmas Steps, Bristol, 29 August | 3 September
FAIRS book | print
2026
Bookmarks, Edinburgh College of Art
Stroud Wayzgoose
St Bride's Wayzgoose
BABE, Spike Island, Bristol
Pentlands Open Studios
2025
Bookmarks, Edinburgh College of Art
Fruitmarket Bookmarket, Edinburgh
Pentlands Open Studios
Peebles Artisan Gift Shop
Galashiels Artisan Gift Shop
Innerleithen Open Studios
2024
BABE, UWE, Bristol
Bookmarks, Edinburgh College of Art
Stroud Wayzgoose
2023
St Bride's Wayzgoose
Bookmarks, Edinburgh College of Art
2022
Innerleithen Open Studios
Cardrona Summer Fayre
Shipley Wayzgoose
BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol
Bookmarks, Edinburgh College of Art
Stroud Wayzgoose
2019
Artists’ Book Market, Portobello, Edinburgh
BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol
2018
ArtBook Berlin, Berlin, Germany 16 | 18 November
Southampton Wayzgoose, Southampton 22 September
Indie Book & Zine Fair, Out of the Blue, Edinburgh 21 July
Shipley Wayzgoose, Shipley 9 June
Turn The Page, The Forum, Norwich 25 | 26 May
Swansea Zine Fair, Volcano, Swansea 19 May
Self-Publishing Artists’ Market, Baltic, Gateshead 21 April
Counter Art Book Fair, Plymouth 17 March
Artists’ Book Market, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 17 | 18 February
2017
ArtBook Berlin, Berlin, Germany 17 | 19 November
Small Publishers Fair, Conway Hall, London 9 | 10 November
World’s Tiniest Zine Fair, Paper Mountain, Australia 18 February
PUBLICATIONS
2020
ToCall No. 9
2019
The Blue Notebook Volume 13 No 2, Spring–Summer 2019