Callum Harvey

Callum Harvey’s work explores spatial environments which sit within places of transition where perceptions of space are altered, and natural forms are flattened; here creating a oneness which allows the work to lie between representation and something more designed, such as wallpaper or ornamentation.
His paintings draw on interior motifs as well as architectural details and pattern, to investigate how these inform the relationships we have to our environments and offer new ways of seeing. Rendered in soft, muted colour palettes, the paintings are built up from multiple layers of thin, transparent paint that play with colour theory and surface to give them a backlit glow and subtle presence.

Callum Harvey (b. 1998) lives and works in London. He completed his BA at Falmouth University in 2020 and received a scholarship to study for his MA at the Royal College of Art graduating in 2023. He completed a residency at Porthmeor Studios, St Ives in 2019. Harvey’s work has been included in a number of recent group exhibitions internationally including Kingsgate Project Space, London (2023); Safehouse, London (2023); Centre Space Gallery, Bristol (2023) and Huxley-Parlour, New York (2023).

“Rooted in the use of organic forms and depictions of nature, my work explores the relation between the imagery’s natural origins and its use within human design, creating work that questions how we experience nature within this constructed genre. I initially drew inspiration from the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts Movements, and their idealised representations of nature as seen within architectural details, repeated ornamental patterns, and interior motifs. These ideas making space for my work to sit within a place of transition, between something organic and something designed,
where perceptions of space are altered and natural forms are flattened.”

• Callum Harvey

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