Claire Harvie

Looking forward to sharing new work after a long pause (had two kids) and to diving back into some dormant projects this spring. Also have some openings in my calendar, so if you or someone you know is looking for new photo work feel free to get in touch 🌿 with much love and presence through the gloomlines

📷 1 - A meeting R 2 - voice to text note, unedited 3 - first phone photo by A

Portraits for @braaaaaaaam to go with his exceedingly beautiful new record Eight Places (For Four Instruments)

Portraits with @charcorn for Could Have Done Anything. Personal blip below if you feel like a longer read ~ ~ ~ ~ The day we took these photos Charlotte told me she was pregnant. Climbing up the questionably stable ladder to our friends’ rooftop I was brought back to the same time a year earlier. I was pregnant with A, climbing that ladder behind another friend, heading for some late light portraits. Not sure if this memory is about the rickety adventures of parenthood, work, friendship, good summer light, all four. Listening to Charlotte’s album this spring/summer, I kept thinking about the calm joy in many of her lyrics. A sense of reaching this state of self and love filled with ease. “Take me out, when I get home For the first time I really don’t feel alone Or anything sad, or anything profound” At the time those lyrics were written I was in some pretty deep light and darkening waves of early motherhood, adrenaline on full burn, headed toward a few months of sleep-deprived PPA/D that took a lot of support to climb through. A year later, around when Could Have Done Anything was released, I felt so grateful to be in a steadier place. A place that had felt impossible to remember or reach. Working, being around friends again, falling more and more in love and hilarity with my exhausting toddler buddy. Maybe the ability to live through these shadows of ourselves leads us to the possible places. The could have done anything places. The precarity of freelance life and parenthood hasn’t gotten any easier, but I believe in it for now and feel a sort of gritty optimism supporting artists/friends who also chose to dive into the parent vortex. Excited for Charlotte to be sharing this music, to be a mom, for the music that comes next.

Portraits with @vicsanointedfavourites 2019

Portraits with @vicsanointedfavourites when we went wandering around Guild Park a few yrs ago

Resonance Gathering install @museejoliette for Dissolving your ear plugs (June 11 - Sept 4) Group exhibition curated by Maud Jacquin and Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre Project lead by @christopherwilles Published by @artmetropole

You Can Can for the summer issue of @musicworksmag 🎯

Resonance Gathering Published by @artmetropole June 30, 2023 This book + double-LP is the culmination of a project involving many incredible artists interpreting an orchestral score by Pauline Oliveros. Written in 1970, “To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation” is a work for sound and light. The project was lead by @christopherwilles who wrote a really great description of it in the link in my bio, where you can also order a copy :) When Chris invited me to join this project in 2017, we began with conversations about light, lighting equipment, colour gels, flash capabilities, all things familiar to the work i’d been doing. Participation as a performer, not so much. During our first public rehearsal/performance at the Gardiner Museum my kneecaps were shaking so intensely I was pretty sure I’d fall over, bringing the very large (rented) light stand down with me. Over the course of a couple years we assembled as a group of artists both familiar and unfamiliar with our instruments. There were many sublime and uncomfortable moments working with Oliveros’ score, continuous opportunities to learn, forget and expand what it is to listen. As part of the 2019 process I exposed a roll of 35mm film, the prints of which are included in this record+book designed by the unbelievably talented, thoughtful, committed @suckersarestuck So grateful to have been part of this ❤️

Charlotte’s beautiful new record Could Have Done Anything is out everywhere ✨ @charcorn @polyvinylrecords ✨ cover design @thedankpit

Relistening to Bienvenue by @ambrois.e released last spring, feels right Cover art by @sere.bl

Echo's Reach is one month old! Working with @islacraigmusic is a path i always, always want to walk down. Look for her record on bandcamp or @ideefixerecords