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Artists in Residence: Lucy Harvey

Lucy Harvey is a conceptual metalsmith who explores our narrative relationship with objects. Her small scale sculptures and installations speak of the absent, melancholy and uncanny. Influenced by both museum and reliquary, she creates collections of crafted artefacts which explore the psychology behind myth and legend.
www.lucyharvey.blogspot.com

Objects hang before the eyes of the imagination, continuously re-presenting ourselves to ourselves, and telling the story of our lives in ways which would be impossible otherwise –

Susan Pearce

We reflect ourselves in objects for reassurance and protection, escapism and discovery. The terrifying and fearful narratives we invent allow us to feel some sort of control over the world around us and the three dimensional form acts as palpable evidence of these real and imagined tales.

I use craft processes as a vehicle to speak of the absent, the uncanny and the melancholy. Assuming the role of a fraudulent anthropologist, I manipulate the pre-existing to create enigmatic artefacts which toy with our longing to believe in the fantastic. Subverting the authority of environment and the associative power of collection allow me to confuse and construct, evoking a conflict of animistic fears and desires.

Mae gwrthrychau’n hongian rhwng llygaid y dychymyg, gan ein cynrychioli’n hunain i’n hunain yn barhaus a chan adrodd hanes ein bywydau mewn ffyrdd a fyddai fel arall yn amhosibl –

Susan Pearce

Rydym yn ein hadlewyrchu ein hunain mewn gwrthrychau er mwyn sicrwydd a diogelwch, fel dihangfa a darganfyddiad. Mae’r straeon dychrynllyd ac ofnadwy rydym yn eu dyfeisio yn gadael i ni deimlo rhyw fath o reolaeth dros y byd o’n cwmpas ac mae’r ffurf dri dimensiwn yn gweithredu fel tystiolaeth amlwg o’r chwedlau hyn – y rhai go-iawn a’r rheini sydd wedi’u dychmygu.

Rwyf yn defnyddio prosesau crefft fel cyfrwng i siarad am yr absennol, yr annaearol a’r pruddglwyfus. Gan gymryd arnaf rôl ffug anthropolegydd, byddaf yn trafod yr hyn sydd eisoes yn bodoli er mwyn creu arteffactau enigmatig sy’n chwarae â’n hysfa i gredu yn y ffantastig. Mae gwyrdroi awdurdod amgylchedd a phŵer cysylltiedig casglu, yn gadael i mi ddrysu ac adeiladu, gan greu gwrthdaro rhwng ofnau a dyheadau animistaidd.