Fiona Morehouse
MFA ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Royal College of Art
Specialisms: Fine Art / Painting / Sculpture
Location: London, United Kingdom
Fiona Morehouse
First Name: Fiona
Last Name: Morehouse
Specialisms: Fine Art / Painting / Sculpture
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program Title: MFA ARTS AND HUMANITIES
About
Imagining landscapes from the inside out, I lean into the intelligence of the underworld as a way of accessing the technologies hidden inside my own body. Calling the subtle realms to the surface, my paintings and sculptures are often initiated through unexpected encounters born from blind drawings and stream of conscious writing. Drawn to openings in the landscape, I work with hollows, holes, holy well, and wild clay as a way of drawing close the question of where my body ends and yours begins.
www.fionamorehouse.com
There lies "In The Milky Light Of A Half Moon" a constellation of bodily landscapes rolling around on top of each other in the dark where light can be found in the most surprising of places. It is a world where cauldrons serve as wombs and tombs and the breath of a tree becomes the death of man (and vice versa). The sculptures are burnished wild clay. They are entombed with hidden objects (including human hair, rosehips, and slate from an ancient chapel roof) and each one aligns with a particular phase of the moon. The painting, Just Between us, is gouache, wild clay, and charcoal on paper. It is illuminated from behind to highlight the blind drawing on the backside. The projection, "Persephone’s Song", is the documentation of a site specific installation, a charcoal kiln turned seed pod gone ‘wrong’ in a gunpowder factory turned country park.
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