Bridget Harvey British, b. 1980
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).
Education
2018-2019 Practice led PhD (Repair-Making: Craft, Narratives, Activism), artist-in-residence at
the Victoria and Albert Museum
Exhibitions
2024 Inspired at Collect with Ruup&Form
2023 Winter Exhibition with Ruup&Form
2023 Repair Revolution!, Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich
2022 The Conceptual Stitch, Concord Centre for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts
2022 Eternally Yours, Somerset House
2022 Together Again, Bridget Harvey for Toast, Somerset House
2022 Collect 2022, with Ruup&Form
2022 Re-Purpose, National Glass Centre, Sunderland
2021 Collect 2021 with Ruup&Form (online)
2020 London Craft Week, with Ruup&Form
2020 Mad About Waste at Collect 2020, with Ruup&Form, Somerset House
2019 Repair-Making and the Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum
2019 Fashioned from Nature, Natural History Museum of Denmark
2019 Propositional Practice (solo exhibition), National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford
2019 Fashioned from Nature, Victoria and Albert Museum
2018 A Narrative of Progress: The Camberwell ILEA Collection (co-curating a section and
exhibiting) Camberwell Space
Selected Residencies, talks, press and others
2024 Objects of Memory, workshops for Toast, Barbican Centre, London
2024 Booth talk at Collect 2024
2023 Tending To in Vienna, Summer session hosted by the Royal Designers for Industry at
2023 Getting Making – podcast available on all major platforms (funded by CCW Staff Research
and the Centre for Circular Design), in conversation on Making Meaning with Ruth Singer
2023 Repair Making - Keynote for Making and Mending conference, British Museum
2023 Work included in the book, Broken by Katie Treggiden
2022 Repair, Privilege and Community (talk), Fix Fest Brussels
2022 Creative Ceramic Repair, workshops for Toast, Somerset House
2021 Repair and the Variable Man (talk) Power to Change Festival, Tate Modern
2021 Back for good: the fine art of repairing things (interview), Observer
2021 In conversation on Circular with Katie Treggiden (podcast)
2021 Repair and Privilege, a Knit15 talk for Wild and Woolly, Unravel Festival
2021 Broken Isn't Bad, activities for the Museum of Childhood
2021 Work included in the book, Resilient Stitch by Claire Wellesley-Smith
2020 Work included in the book, Mend! by Kate Sekules
2020 Wear your repairs with pride: inside the modern mending movement (article), Financial
Times
2019 Getting Making: Understanding Making, Understanding Ourselves (talk), British Council
2019 Maker in Residence, Victoria and Albert Museum
2019 Ceramic Perspectives: Object Focus Tour, Victoria & Albert Museum
2019 Spelman Cups: Attitudes to The Past (essay), Ephemera Journal
2019 Repair-Making in the Museum (research update talks), Victoria & Albert Museum
2018 Repairing Together: Unlearning, Sharing, Changing (talk), Goethe Institute
2018 Repair-Making (Lunchtime Lecture series), Victoria & Albert Museum
2018 A Large Box of Loose Parts (catalogue essay), A Narrative of Progress: The Camberwell
ILEA Collection
2018 Hopeful Repair, Repairing Hopefully (blog essay), Restart Project
2018 Jumpers: Truthful Fictional Auto/Biographies of Practice (talk), Textile and Place,
Manchester School of Art
2017 Redesigning Repair? History – Culture – Politic (talk), Chelsea College of Art
Lecturing and Research
I am a lecturer on MA Designer Maker (Camberwell College of Arts), MA Textile Design (Chelsea College of Art), and MA Design (Goldsmiths University).
2015 -23 Lecturer on MA Textile design, Chelsea College of Art
I am a visiting lecturer on MA Design, Goldsmith College, and both Grad Dip Graphics at Chelsea College of Art
I was an Associate Researcher with the Centre for Circular Design at Chelsea College of Arts (the centre has since closed)
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Inspired
7 Mar - 5 Apr 2024Read more -
inspired
Collect 2024 28 Feb - 3 Mar 2024COLLECT INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2024 Ruup & Form is delighted to be returning to Collect 2024 VIP PREVIEW 28/ 29 Feb 2024 01-03 Mar | 11.00 - 18.00 Exhibiting works...Read more -
Disobedient
London Craft Week 2021 4 - 10 Oct 2021For the exhibition Disobedient, Ruup & Form explores wearable sculptures with makers who are disobedient to their material, whether by material, technique or presentation. These artists use their medium to...Read more -
The Handmade's Table
London Design Festival 2021 18 - 26 Sep 2021The Handmade’s Table is a collection of contemporary tableware that is essential to the art of dining. The exhibition will showcase handcrafted works of art that enhances this experience. Makers...Read more -
Meditation in Material
Collect Art Fair 2021 26 Feb - 2 Mar 2021The year gone, 2020, has been an introspective year. We were forced to retreat into our little bubble. A solitary spiral, where we found solace and discord simultaneously. Our day...Read more -
Stories We Tell
London Design Festival 30 Sep - 6 Nov 2020Ruup & Form is pleased to present the works of Barbara Franc (London, UK)- textile sculptor, Bridget Harvey (London, UK)- repair maker, Saskia Saunders (Buckinghamshire, UK)- handwoven sculptor and Spriha...Read more
