a Statement that tells:

My name is Cameron Jarvie, I'm an interdisciplinary artist with a practice across 

objects, monologues, durational performance and interactive systems of encounter.

My work looks to unpick and/or direct the processes through which we draw meaning. 

 

An interest in myths and encyclopaedias held since childhood feels consistently relevant in my work.

Lately my direction has been informed equally by experiences of burnout.

I also feel that as a child of the internet and growing up in mega-cities, my relationship with urban environments and online space form an undercurrent to my attitude.

 

My approach, neither medium nor subject specific, 

blurs boundaries between the mythic, encyclopaedic and diaristic; 

Because memory is the medium I look to work with, and live-encounter or anecdote tend to be significant factors in creating deeper mental impressions, I often find my work categorised amongst performance or conceptual art practices. 

I think much like Francis Alys or Virgil Abloh, I keep my studio in my head, 

and consider my practice more of an attitude or way of relating to the world. 

‘My’ process touches everything, and the artworks I produce are a residue that has been chosen and carefully arranged. I have an exhibition practice, but much of it also happens in the streets, in parks, in living rooms, and so on- untitled, unannounced, unmade, but no less real.

 

The pieces I do produce are produced -more than for their present selves- to exist in their secondary forms: 

not as the objects, but as their memory.

As information or imagination- as seeds or producers or activators 

for new realisations and relationships to emerge. 

 

My belief is this-

The best works, mine or otherwise, carry clarity, brilliance, and endurance.

 

Through memory, analogy, rumour, or directly mediated encounter, 

they become co-authored by their audiences. 

 

My aim might be simply to get to the heart of things- 

That is my process, one of learning and understanding.

I sometimes think of it as like going on a walk,

from somewhere familiar, to somewhere less familiar, and back again.

And so I would like through my work I extend this process with my audience. 

That I might take a viewer on a walk, 

from simple, through complex, to essential- 

and leaving behind a map 

Such that they might on their own terms repeat 

this same journey in different ways.

 

a Statement that shows:

Cameron Jarvie has tried many times to nail down a short statement on his practice.

 

Every time he has been asked, he reimagines his statement from a different angle.

The individual statements never fully encapsulate what he's trying to do, and never will,

but each one forms a layer which together build back into a richer picture of his practice.

 

His work seeks to prompt and extend this process with the world around us-

maybe that's the point.