an artist Bio :
Cameron Jarvie (b.1998) is a Hong Kong born, London raised artist with an interdisciplinary practice across object & installation, written & spoken-word, durational performance and interactive encounter. His approach, neither medium nor subject specific, blurs boundaries between the mythic, encyclopaedic and diaristic. His work seeks to unpick and/or direct the processes through which we draw meaning.
He holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Fine Art from Newcastle University with 1st Class Hons, where he received ‘The Final Year Student Prize for Achievement’ for his epic two-week-long piece ‘A Show Like No Other’ and received ‘The John Bell Simpson Prize for Most Outstanding Dissertation’ for his work ‘Formats, Fictions, Frameworks: Why the Least Important Thing About Art is the Art.’
He has also completed residencies with Elsewhere别处 (China/Japan), Space 118 (India) and VARC Hexham (UK), an Erasmus+ exchange program with ASP Warszawa (Poland), and the Collective Studio program with The Newbridge Project, Shieldfield (UK). He has exhibited in a variety of spaces and contexts, including at Asylum Chapel, Ex-Libris Gallery, and Tate Modern.
In 2024 alone, his work has been exhibited across ‘CAP Festival: Towards Levitation’ at Tate Modern, Montez Press Radio, Ivy House Peckham, Hangar Space Battersea,and Genesis Cinema Mile End, London (2024), and in ‘The Royal College of Art SoAH Degree Shows 2024’ at RCA Battersea (2024), ‘Battenberg II’ at Way Out East, Beckton (2024),Hazy Horizons at Noho Showrooms, Soho (2024), ‘Elephant in the Safe?’ at Asylum Chapel, Peckham (2024), ‘Playground’ at Pedlars Park, Vauxhall (2024), ‘Rites & Ritual’ at Safehouse 2, Peckham (2024), ‘Everything Must Go’ at The Cookhouse UAL, Chelsea (2024), ‘Desire? Desire!’ at Pending RCA, Battersea (2024).
Additionally he has recently operated as a lead coordinator on a 101 artist audiovisual exposition and a 40 artist radio broadcast, and as a lead programmer on a 14 artist group exhibition and on a 26 artist variety event, He also facilitates workshops, curates and hosts a quarterly storytelling, performance and live-entertainment evening, and annually sets up a large scale treasure hunt.
Currently represented by Punto Blu