Harvey Mullen

Visual Artist & Printmaker

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Holmes à Court Gallery, Vasse Felix

Opening speeches by Janet Holmes à Court (centre) and Curator Dr Laetitia Wilson (left)
June 3, 2022 harveymullen Image

Swan River Print Studio Exhibition

Opening Thursday 10th February 6.30pm at Earlywork Gallery, South Fremantle, until 20th February

The Imprint of Repetitive Behaviour (1-4)

February 8, 2022 harveymullen Image

Apparition – exhibition

August – September 2020

I’m pleased to say that despite all the Covid disruption the rescheduled exhibition went ahead as planned. Click on the above image for more shots and the accompanying essay.

June 5, 2021June 5, 2021 harveymullen Image

Upcoming exhibition – new opening date

Opening Friday 7th August 6-8pm

March 5, 2020June 5, 2021 harveymullen Image

Perth Royal Art Prize 2019

I have been shortlisted as a finalist in this year’s prize. The opening is on the 23rd September. See the press release below

Ghost in the Machine 2.1 (Shadows on the Wall)
September 17, 2019September 3, 2022 harveymullen Image

City of Melville Art Awards 2019

Delighted that my entry won the open award and is now a part of the City of Melville’s art collection.

September 17, 2019June 5, 2021 harveymullen Image

Etching workshops

July 25, 2019July 30, 2019 harveymullen Image

Ghost in the Machine – Monoprints

Ghost in the Machine Series

These works are part of a series of experimental monoprints created using discarded televisions gathered from roadside collections. The deconstructed flat screens provide a number of matrices, that have been manipulated with different intaglio techniques such as scratching and burnishing to disrupt the pattern of the surface, animating the blank screen with atmospheric, veiled forms.

Colour was added with additional plates from the same objects. Their slightly different sizes leaves a visible overlap reminiscent of old transparency film. It is a visual narrative of the layered construction of the print and a small but important cue to the past existence of the substrate; a seam to be unpicked.

Crucially the underlaying substance – the matrix, and its inherent symbolism as an object and as waste, strongly influences any attempt at interpretation. A television is totemic. It is a multifaceted phenomenon: it entertains us, it is a medium, a source of information. It carries important images to us. It can be deceptive. It is “far seeing”. It reflects the world around us; to extend Plato’s analogy, it is the contemporary cave wall.

The title Ghost in the Machine is an oblique reference to the philosopher Gilbert Ryle who coined the expression as a critique of Descartes’ dualism of body and mind. What is it that animates us? That gives us consciousness? Is there a soul? What happens when the lights go out? Existential questions these days naturally have a more environmental slant as we watch the polar ice caps melting on our wide screens.  The Geist of our Time seems to be climate change. What will our generation leave as its legacy? Will it just be plastic?

(NB: in printmaking a ghost is printed by taking a second impression after the first without re-inking the matrix, allowing the residual ink to make a fainter, less distinct image)

June 11, 2019December 12, 2019 harveymullen Image

Art Walk Freo 2019

Ghosts on the Wall

Coming this 15/16 June

For more information: artwalkfreo.com

June 8, 2019June 2, 2021 harveymullen Image Leave a comment
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Printed using a screen (tv) as the matrix but not actually a screen print.
Part of a wonderful initiative bringing life to empty shopfronts in Freo.
Last night’s amethyst
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