Statement

Guy Harvey Produces work governed by the internal structure and paraphernalia of the home. The works, both 2 and 3 dimensions utilise an array of domestic media, ranging from anaglypta and flock wallpaper to velvet and resin.

A bag of child's sweets seamlessly merges with a cast coloured fireplace. Whilst a trompe l'oeil of a soiled resin mattress elevated to the vertical, confronts the viewer with both forgotten childhood memories, and paradoxically, painted abstraction.

It is as though Harvey is attempting to isolate a 'memory', or 'feeling', that a certain smell or texture can suddenly reawaken. But the truth of that memory is called into question. Whilst these isolated segments lend authenticity to a 'retrieved past', it is not the rendering of that historical context that is desired, but the questioning of the authenticity of the memory itself