Callum Harvey
Overview
“I create imagined and fantastical structures that sit between the natural and artificial.” - Callum Harvey
Callum Harvey’s work explores spatial environments that exist within places of transition, locations where perceptions of space are altered, and surfaces are flattened. His works raise questions about how we perceive and interact with specific sites by merging imagery related to interior motifs with external architectural details through a collage-like process. At the stark intersections between these different elements of the paintings, dislocated and illusory perceptions of space are formed. As such, Harvey is able to play with the flatness of the canvas, and instead present works that feel almost like absurdist physical environments one could enter into.
Rendered in soft, muted colour palettes, Harvey’s paintings are meticulously built up from multiple layers of thin, transparent paint, imbuing them with a backlit glow and a subtle presence. He considers the social histories of place by incorporating elements that symbolise idyllic, highly decorated and affluent homes, thereby dissecting the meaning of these class signifiers when they are taken out of context.
Biography
Callum Harvey (b.1998) lives and works in London. He completed a BA in Fine Art at Falmouth University (2020) and an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2023). In 2023, he presented his debut solo exhibition at Pipeline, London and his work was exhibited at Future Fair, New York by Huxley-Parlour.
His work has been featured in group exhibitions by galleries and curatorial projects including: Pavilion Gallery, Cromwell Place, London (2023); Centre Space Gallery, Bristol (2023) and Kingsgate Project Space, London (2023). He undertook the Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives Residency in 2019 and has been awarded The Radcliffe Trust Craft Scholarship (2022) and The Arts Society Young Arts Bursary (2016) alongside being shortlisted for the ACS Materials Award (2019).
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