Jake Harvey
Tangents
27 October - 25 November 2022
Art First, London
We are very pleased to present a handsome group of Scottish sculptor, Jake Harvey’s carved stone wall reliefs in basalt and marble. The basalts were once used as setts where for hundreds of years they bore the traffic of human and animal footsteps and the weathering of time. Harvey has repurposed these functional stones, carving and honing them into beautiful, tactile abstract forms that evoke landscape and geological process. The white marble pieces are slightly smaller, measuring 18 x 18 cm and they reference archeological artefacts as well as land forms.
In these as well as the free-standing pieces, there is an elemental stillness and a sense of deep time, leaving us to contemplate the essence of stone itself. Harvey’s interventions are subtle and informing, inviting us to touch the works and to feel for just a moment, the wonderful qualities of stone and how it reflects our planet.
