Guy Harvey COUGH CANDY TWIST | 27 June - 31 July 2003
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Press Release

James Colman gallery is pleased to present Guy Harvey's first London solo exhibition. The new work, taking 'the home' as its metaphor, focuses on the rose - tinted axis of childhood memory, questioning the symbols and textures associated with the Victorian hearth. To achieve this, Harvey has utilized a wide array of media ranging from acrylic and resin to velvet and flock.

The gallery's two-floored back wall houses a floor to ceiling painting of a distressed interior. Elsewhere, a handful of child’s sweets seamlessly merge with a cast amber fireplace. The silhouette of a chandelier recalls a faded elegance displacing our attention into the past. The fractured nature of the flock conveys this nostalgia.

It is as though Harvey has isolated a memory or a feeling that a certain smell or texture can suddenly re- awaken. The comfortable familiarity of the home and its paraphernalia lend authenticity to a retrieved past. Harvey seemingly nods to the historical obsolescence of painterly representation yet embraces the seductiveness of the flock wall paper’s gaudy repetitions.