Harvey has spoken of how the “path to peace” on which she has been venturing as an artist and individual is one that she realised was “linked to the truth of surrender”.

Religious art has often involved the creation of allegories – ways of telling stories through the personification of beatific figures active in holding fast at a point of conflict or challenge, or in the form of icons, providing a point at which the light of the spiritual is being emitted, through the channel of material objects. The artist Auriea Harvey uses a wide range of contemporary technologies, from software, to virtual reality, to artificial intelligence, to 3D printing, making artworks that may be described as religious art for a digital age.

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