Aubrey Manning OBE on G&A Harvie, “I’m
very pleased to see contemporary artists tackling social issues, and
particularly a subject as important as population. There hasn’t been
enough debate about population issues, and contemporary art is a
great way of reaching a new audience.”
Carolyn George, Director of Street Child
Africa said, “The need for not-for-profit organisations to be
creative and resourceful has never been greater. Contemporary art
enables us to access audiences we may not have otherwise reached,
and at Street Child Africa we are delighted to be working with
Gregor Harvie because he understands the issues and his work is
accessible, commenting on issues which are genuinely important.”
Rupert Maas from the Antiques Roadshow and
Maas Gallery said, “Primeval gods haunt the painter Gregor Harvie
- Khaos, and Eros (love, the life-bringer). Spread across the fifty
intense paintings of his new show, Eros has triumphed - life
has proliferated so fast that Gaia is exhausted. Logic predicts
that, full circle, Khaos will prevail in the future, but all we can
see in The Crypt Gallery (the underworld!), where the fifty
paintings are densely hung, is exponential cellular division
evolving through to teeming crowds. A glimpse of what may be the
fate of all this life is given by his partner, writer Alex Harvie,
in a series of elegies for past societies that have collapsed under
their own weight.”