Sculptor, born in Dorking, Surrey. He did a fine art sculpture course at Cardiff College of Art, 1977–8, then was at Royal College of Art, 1983–6. Mixed shows participated in included LG at RCA Galleries, 1984; Outside Sculpture Show, Camden Lock, 1985; Vanessa Devereux Gallery, 1986; and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 1988. Had solo shows at Birch & Conran from 1987. Harvey worked with the Laboritorio Aperto of Bussana Vecchia in Italy in 1985. In 1988 his environmental sculpture was included in Peter Greenaway’s film Drowning by Numbers; in 1989 living sculpture by him was featured in Derek Jarman’s film War Requiem. From that year Harvey worked with Heather Ackroyd, whom he married, after they had met at an event she was curating and they discovered that they were using similar materials.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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