Profiles - Jeffrey Harris

Dunedin-based painter Jeffrey Harris is profiled in this episode from a 1983 arts series. Harris talks about his quest for intensity and impact, and how violence both attracts and repulses him. He also discusses two of his influences — the surrounding landscape (particularly the wilds of Otago Peninsula and Seacliffe, and the older parts of Dunedin) and photographs, ranging from family portraits to newspaper pictures, which provided the figures that populated his expressionistic works.

A lot of the things that I'm interested in painting are the sort of things that were treated in the Middle Ages by the stages of life and things which aren't sort of evident in twentieth century art.

– Jeffrey Harris

Key Cast & Crew

Bruce Morrison

Director

Justin Keene

Assistant Camera

Hamish Keith

Technical Advisor

Bruce Adams

Sound Recordist

Kevin Hayward

Camera

Keith Ballantyne

Composer