About

Hi, I’m John Harrigan.

I’m an artist working across film, performance and writing.

For more than thirty five years I have made work through cinema, immersive performance, meditation, teaching and long-form writing, always with the same underlying concern: how story, attention and lived experience can change the way we understand ourselves and the world.

I began in performance, creating immersive and ritual-led work through FoolishPeople in theatres, galleries, warehouses and unusual spaces. That practice shaped everything that followed: my filmmaking, my teaching, and the way I work with individuals and groups. Across all of it, I am interested in change that is embodied rather than abstract, practical rather than performative, and artistically rigorous rather than merely inspirational.

I have written and directed award-winning feature films, created large-scale performances, and taught for organisations including the Royal College of Art, the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

I am also a PhD researcher in Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art, where my research investigates how meaning, authorship and sovereignty emerge through embodied practice, ritual process and lived experience.

His artistic work has been described as “spellbinding” (Remotegoat), “vivid and disturbing” (Filmmaker Magazine), and “a smart and spirited examination of the way that the value of art shifts with time and context” (Ekow Eshun).

This site is where I share meditation, workshops, writing and private sessions for people who want greater clarity, stronger creative fidelity, deeper attention and more meaningful change in their lives and work.

I am not interested in vague uplift or generic coaching. I care about real shifts: the kind that help people think more clearly, make braver decisions, reconnect with what matters, and build a more truthful relationship with their own practice and life.