Gregor Harvie

My work harnesses the power of thought experiments, visualisation, and material expression to create paintings that are both seductive pieces of art and confrontational criticisms of society.

My current series challenges the preserve of physics, questioning society’s faith in the power of numbers. Maths has failed to explain any of the fundamental forces which form our world, and it is now time for a leap of imagination.

I create large-scale expressive works that investigate the subatomic world, but rather than being illustrations of physics, they are explorations of the underlying ideas. I take the few principles that can be undisputedly accepted and from those, conceive new visual interpretations that juxtapose pairs and opposites, particles and waves, interactions, impacts and revelations in indivisible quantum of space and time. Each piece is conceived as a single vision, a window framing this fascinating subject from a unique perspective.

My paintings are accompanied by logic poems exploring the relationships between unresolved and sometimes contradictory concepts. These word equations are unconstrained by grammatical structure and are developed in parallel with the paintings, helping steer the creative decision-making process and opening a second path for the viewer to understand the images they accompany.