Katharine Harvey

In commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of Ivvavik National Park, Northern Images is exhibiting art produced and inspired by the Artists in the Park residency program. Several drawings by Katharine Harvey appear in the exhibit which was unveiled at Inuvik’s Northern Images Gallery from March 20 to April 9 and will be featured at their Yellowknife location from April 30 to May 21 and their Churchill, Manitoba location from Canada Day to July 31, 2010.

Cadillac Fairview Corp Limited has commissioned a 1,050 square foot waterfall sculpture for its Encounters with Art program at Fairview Mall, Toronto. Constructed from recycled plastic objects, Above and Below is suspended in the large skylit atrium above an existing water fountain. The sculpture will be on display from February 25 to May 25, 2010.

With the support of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche and the City of Toronto, Katharine Harvey’s Waterfall was on exhibit at Ontario House throughout the 17 days of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, February 12 to 28.

Two Nicholas Metivier Gallery artists, Katharine Harvey and Peter Hoffer, feature in Super 8: The Art of Making It which aired on CBC Television’s Arts Channel Bold. Contact the gallery for a copy of the DVD.

Waterfall, a solo exhibition featuring a large-scale site-specific installation made of recycled plastic, and a selection of recent paintings appeared at the MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie, Ontario.

Commissioned by Brookfield Place for the 2009 Earth Week celebration, Katharine Harvey’s Chandelier, 2009, was a site-specific mixed media installation. Made with thousands of recycled plastic containers, Harvey’s 21-foot tall, 15 foot diameter Chandelier was installed in the Allen Lambert Galleria, Brookfield Place, 181 Bay Street, Toronto.

Commissioned for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Waterfall drew crowds of around 30,000 on Saturday, October 4. Made of 6,000 lbs of shredded plastic bottles (borrowed from a recycling facility) woven by hand into a giant net, the sculpture was over 20 feet high and 80 feet long. The water effect was achieved by the play of undulating, coloured lights across its surface.

The Nuit Blanche sculpture follows on the heels of another recent Waterfall sculpture, presented on September 18 at the Canadian Art annual Gala dinner and auction.