E-mail: pjharfleet@hotmail.com
Education: (1st Class Ba Hons Degree) Fine Art Painting, MMU, ‘98-’01
MA Fine Art, MMU, ‘02-’03
Artist Statement
Paul Harfleet’s interest lies in the implications of citizenship and its influence on navigation and memory of the urban environment. He augments and re-contextualises various sites and objects by allocating them with new meaning or significance often through drawing, photography and intervention, from his ongoing Pansy Project which involves the artist planting pansies at the site of homophobic abuse to his current focus on objects that exist in the public realm from memorial sculpture to a more general exploration of the built environment.
Paul Harfleet is a Manchester based artist who has exhibited extensively world wide, The Pansy Project has been included in various festivals from the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2007 to the Reykjavik Arts Festival in Iceland 2008. He was shortlisted for the ‘Best of Manchester’ award at Urbis in 2008, he also co-runs Apartment, an artist-led exhibition and project space based in his one bedroom council flat in central
More on The Pansy Project:
The Pansy Project is an ongoing artwork; I revisit locations where homophobia has been experienced and plant pansies. These self seeding pansies act as a living memorial to this abuse and operate as an antidote to it; some pansies wither whilst others thrive in car park borders and windswept road verges. Each Pansy's location is named after the abuse received. The project consists of the website, photographs and installations at sites of homophobia. The Pansy Project has featured in queerupnorth, London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and recently was included in the Homotopia Festival in Liverpool 2007. For more information on The Pansy Project visit: www.thepansyproject.com
Selected Exhibitions:
August 2008 - 'The Best of Manchester' Award exhibition. (Shortlisted in art category for The Pansy Project)
June 2008 - Ruinous Recollections, Upper Space Gallery, Manchester
May 2008 - 'Hanged' Slaughterhouse, part of 'Journey' curated by Bjorn Roth, Egilsstaðir
April 2008- The Pansy Project –
November 2007 – ‘Memorial to the Unnamed’,
June 2007 - 'Meeting Point'-Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin
May 2007 - Pansy Project Exhibition - Tooks Chambers, London
April 2007 – ‘Pansy Give Away’ - as part of LLGFF, London
March 2007 – Sexuality and the Ownership of Space’ SouthBank Centre, 100 ideas series, ‘In Conversation’ event part of LLGFF, London
March – April 2007 – ‘For David Morley’, Southbank, Queen’s Walk, part of LLGFF, London
March-April 2007 – The Pansy Project, BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival - Festival Image collaboration with Nadege Meriau, London
November 2006- The Pansy Project, Crate, Project Space, Margate
November 2006 - The Pansy Project, Transition Gallery, London
September 2006 - Article featured on www.glowlab.com, New York
September 2006 - The Pansy Project, Conflux Festival, New York
September 2006 - Article featured in 'Critical Friend', London
August 2006 - 'We Belong Everywhere' for Anachron-Gen. Sheffield
May 2006 - The Pansy Project, queerupnorth, Manchester Art Gallery
Jan-April 2006 – Visitor Assistance; Social Work, Cornerhouse,
May-August 2006 – The Pansy Project, queerupnorth,
March 2006 - Travel-Agents-Projects, In-Flight Magazine,
Nov 2005 – On the Shelf, Compartment, Rogue open studios,
Sep 2005 – Cyclists Dismount, Apartment,
May 2005 and ongoing- ‘The Pansy Project’, a series of events and installations- commissioned by queerupnorth international arts festival,
May 2005- “Pansy!”
April 2005 – ‘The Good Life’, Apartment,
November 2004—‘Artist Book show’, Houseroom,
August 2004—‘twoeightone’ International Mail Art, Manchester/Tokyo/San Paulo
August 2004 - 'Do Something, Floating ip,
April 2004 - Will Foster, ‘One Minute Video’ project,
Feb 2004 -‘Apartment’ inaugural show, artist-led space,
Jan 2004— Debenham’s window,
Nov 2003—‘Showhome’, Artist Run,
Oct 2003— MA graduate show, Holden Gallery,
Jul 2003—‘The eve of destruction’, international 3,
May 2003—‘Dark and Disturbing Things’, Ove Arup Space, St James’s buildings,
Oct 2001—‘Bloodstream’, Islington Mill,
Aug 2001—‘Summer Exhibition’, View Gallery,
Jul 2001 – ‘Mancunian Candidates’, Degree Show, MMU,
Curatorial CV
Alongside my own artistic practice I co-run Apartment (with Hilary Jack) an artist-led project and exhibition space run from my one bedroom council flat in central
www.apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com all the shows listed have been co-curated with Hilary Jack. Further activity can be found at: www.harfleetandjack.blogspot.com
June - Aug 2008 – Artranspennine08 http://www.atp08.blogspot.com
March 2008 – Dirty Honky - Apartment
January 2008 – Nikola Irmer – Horst, Apartment
June 2007 – OPEN CUBE, Exhibition Selectors and Curators, CUBE,
June 2007 - 'Meeting Point'-Axel Lapp Projects,
Mar 2007 - Maeve Rendle - Mount Purgatory, Apartment
Feb 2007 - Martine Myrup - Domestic Disturbances, Apartment
June 2006 - 'Beneath' at Surface Gallery,
Feb 2006 - David Wilkinson and Beáta Veszely - HÁ, Apartment
July 2006 - Cherry Tenneson - OT, Apartment
Jun 2006 - Contents May Vary, Apartment
Dec 2005 - Ken Chu - All We Were Saying, Apartment
Nov 2005 – On the Shelf, Compartment, Rogue Open Studios,
Oct 2005 - Cyclists Dismount, Apartment
Jun 2005 - Recent Works (Ma Interim Show), Apartment
Jun 2005 - The Good Life, Apartment
Feb 2005 - Joined, Apartment
Jun 2004 - Summer Show, Apartment
Feb 2004 - First Show, Apartment
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