Harry Oliver
Nationality
British
Future Archaeologies
An ongoing investigation into seeing, and the marks we will leave behind.
In The Belly Of Gaia
Documentary piece drawing comparisons between waste treatment in the modern day and stories from Hesiod's Theogony.
The Wind The Hill The Protest
A camera made to blow with the wind, roll with the land and join a protest. Distilling phenomena to its essence - light.
Reciprocity Of Reality
An incomplete investigative project focussing on experience and the marks that it leaves behind.
If A Tree Falls
A camera made from a hollowed out tree stump, returned to the woodland it had been recovered from to share an insight into an alternate arboreal temporal experience.
Future Archaeologies WIP Gallery Residency
This body of work brought together fragments from my ongoing practice into a temporary constellation. Using x-ray imagery, discarded film, found negatives, and analog manipulations, the installation explored ideas of residue, memory, and the imprint of pr
Looking For Light
A book made in the aftermath of my friend’s suicide. It began as a way to dismantle the structures I’d been living by—image, truth, meaning—and slowly rebuild them with full awareness of their constructedness. It’s both raw and delibera
Yesterdays Paper Makes Great Paper
Photographs of discarded newspapers, printed back onto paper made of the very papers discarded.
Tuft : A Love Story
I watered a tuft of grass growing from a crack in the city until it died. A quiet act of love, control, and projection—an allegory for our own misguided caretaking of everything we think needs saving.