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Jake Harvey

RSA
b.1948

Deep Flow, 2022

Gabbro, corten steel
H:23cm W:65cm D:12cm
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Far Away Hill II, 2022

Gabbro and corten steel
H:51cm W:80cm D:17.5cm
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Basalt Flow, 2022

Basalt and corten steel
H:49.5cm W:70cm D:17cm
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Lingam, 2023

granite
H:6cm W:4cm D:4cm
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Cubic Suture, 2023

dolerite, feldspar and quartz
H:5cm W:5cm D:5cm
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Cubic Flow, 2023

psammite and quartz
H:4.5cm W:5cm D:4.5cm
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Oblate Suture, 2023

dolerite, feldspar and quartz
H:13.5cm W:7cm D:2cm
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Jake Harvey outside his studio, Maxton, Scottish Borders

March 2022
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Jake Harvey

RSA
Photography by Foundry Films
Born: 1948
Place of Birth: Kelso, Scottish Borders

‘My creative stimulus comes from many sources but frequently evolves from drawing things seen and imagined, from lived encounters with the landscape and, in the reductive process of carving, from embracing the tangential ways of making that evolve. The title of this exhibition of sculptures carved in basalt, granite, marble and porphyry relates to a material and a way of working it. In a broader context it links to my aim to create simple sculptural forms; works of distilled essence that invite deliberation from the viewer; sculptures made by a process of paring down and refining in terms of both form and concept.’ – Jake Harvey, 2022

Jake Harvey is a sculptor of elemental works imbued with stillness, sense-stimulus and a sophisticated Zen-like simplicity. He carves granite, basalt, marble and limestone, often placing the simple abstract forms directly on the wall or floor, or sometimes on shaped bases that can be set indoors or outside within a landscape. After studying sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art (1966–72), Harvey went on to become the Head of School of Sculpture for eleven years. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Sculpture and lives and works in Maxton in the Scottish Borders. Increasingly intrigued by the relationship of man to the earth and enthralled by the shaping of earth by man and vice versa, his sculptures retain the indexical mark of the maker and often subtly imply an indeterminate use or function.


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