Biography
Jake Harvey RSA (b. Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland) studied sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art (1966–72) and during 1971 he had a travelling scholarship visiting Greece and the Greek islands. He further travelled to India in 1989 and 1994, Germany in 1994, with a residency in Morioka, Japan, 1998. Harvey was a trustee of the Scottish Sculpture Trust (1984-7). His sculptures, such as Poacher’s Tree and Poacher’s Vane, both shown at Scottish Art in the 20th Century, at RWA, 1991, are full of mysterious signs and symbols, the sculptor favouring forged and welded steel. Harvey had a solo show at the Third Eye Centre, Glasgow (1985) where the Contemppoary Art Society purchased his Nocturnal Landscape (1980), at the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (1993), and The Crystal Gallery, Morioka (1998). Major commissions have included the Hugh MacDiarmid Memorial, Langholm (1985); Symbol Stone for Compaq Computers, Glasgow (1988); and Tools for the Shaman, The Hunterian, Glasgow (1996-7). Harvey was elected RSA in 1989.
