Half Egyptian, half English, Harris’s works draw inspiration from his background of both Western and Egyptian culture. Inspired by memories of walking among deserted stone blocks in Egypt in his formative years and on a family background that oscillates between the artistic and the academic, Harris’s works are an expression of both the intuitive and the intellectual amalgamation of the organic, cerebral and metaphysical.

Small in size, yet ambitious in scope, Harris’s sculptural work focuses on the expression of energy, as a feeling and force and as an emotional reaction to the experiential and the internalisation of the prevalent discourse. Often beginning with the simplicity of recognisable forms, as part of his process he looks at the ways in which they can digress, devolve and change, employing what he calls the ‘onomatopoeia of line’. He seeks to convey an energetic expression through his carvings and invites the viewer to participate in this by experiencing the sculptures through touch as a way to reconnect with the self.