About the Artist:
Hailey Harvey is a Houston-based mixed-media artist specializing in ceramics, drawing, and fiber arts. She received her Bachelor of Arts in both Studio Art and Psychology from Houston Christian University, her Master of Arts in Psychology from Houston Christian University, and is presently a Master of Fine Arts Candidate at Houston Christian University. From a young age, Hailey learned many traditional crafts such as needlepoint and crochet from her grandmother who unknowingly led her to pursue her passion for self-expression through creating. Hailey loves working with all mediums but has always been led back to incorporating thread within her works. In high school, she practiced the traditional processes of film photography and further experimented with embroidery on prints.
While working towards her BA, Hailey studied many mediums, typically charcoal drawings or clay sculpting, where she focused on psychological processing. While still focusing on mental processes during her MFA program, she began to focus more on the drift between the conscious and unconscious and the reminiscence through memories. Her current work heavily depicts archetypal animals, such as the lamb and hare throughout her, drawings, paintings, and ceramic work along with incorporating layers of fiber such as embroidery and crochet throughout each medium.
Hailey is a passionate artist committed to developing her work and learning all there is under the faculty, mentors, and colleagues at HCU until May of 2026, when she graduates. She is a daughter, a sister, and a friend who takes much inspiration from those around her.
Artist Statement:
My work explores how memory registers within the body, taking form by way of touch, accumulation, and the passage of time. Through material processes, subtle impressions gather and soften, giving presence to what remains as lived experience rather than distant recollection. Rooted in personal history yet expanding universally, my work draws from a shared symbolic language. Familiar animal forms emerge as an archetypal presence, each bearing layered surfaces and quiet markings that allow the weight of memory to be sensed as much as seen.
These figures move through thresholds between the known and unknown, inhabiting a state of limbo that holds them between departure and arrival. This suspended condition is not static, but reflective, a space where memory rises to the surface and asks to be acknowledged. The thresholds they traverse act as metaphors for transitional states, moments when what was once carried unconsciously becomes consciously faced and integrated. Resting between stillness and motion, presence and absence, the animals embody the tension of this in-between, the ache of what cannot be returned and the quiet pull toward wholeness. In joining them, the viewer is invited to pause within this liminal space and consider how memory shapes both personal and collective becoming.