Bridget Harvey
Bridget Harvey is a maker who investigates process, occupying a fluid space between craft and design, making and remaking. She hand-works discarded objects into one-off or small-batch artefacts, drawing techniques from multiple disciplines such as textiles, print, and conservation methods, to create tactile and desirable objects.
Her artefacts are hybrids of making, auto/biography and process, materialised to communicate discourses of repair-making, sustainability, and sharing. Bridget takes a broad and playful approach, considering exhibiting, curating, facilitating workshops, researching, residencies, writing, and giving talks as vital as making itself. By making and curating artefacts, Bridget re-stories the familiar and reconstructs the forgotten.
Recent work includes completing her practice-based PhD (AHRC funded) Repair-Making: Craft, Narratives, Activism, an artists residency at the V&A (October 2018 - July 2019) and an exhibition of her V&A residency work in the museum for London Design Festival (2019).
