Angels of history and destiny : David Eggleton talks to Jeffrey Harris

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"The door is half-open. I knock, and Jeffrey Harris appears down a narrow walkway in the otherwise completely full-up big space that is his main studio, in a former automotive workshop located near Dunedin's old warehouse district. He leads the way through a warren of jumbled-up finished and half-finished paintings of all sizes, stacked or leaning, up the stairs to a small room at the end of the mezzanine that is his current painting studio. We began talking about 'Renaissance Days' shown over summer at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and I ask about the impulse for the exhibition."