Artist Information:
Morwenna Catt
Bradford,
United Kingdom
Member Since: Mar 2006
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Artist Statement:
Childhood is a recurring theme
in my work, I try to dispel
Fairy Tale mythologies,
stripping back to the bare
bones of experience and
uncovering some kind of
underlying truth using
personal narratives alongside
subverted imagery. I use the
familiar and the nostalgic as
a trigger, but disrupt the
reading. In recent works the
family unit is transformed
into animals, either drawn,
painted or constructed as 3D
textiles; malformed, battered
and bruised to evoke the
darker side of family life. I
am preoccupied with our
relationships to trigger
objects, memory, nostalgia and
psychosis.
My work is very ‘hand-made’ –
it can look laborious and
clumsy, scrawled with hand
written text and the faded
words from an old ribbon
typewriter. I want the work to
have a wounded ‘authenticity’
and try to use evocative image
and text/process to tap into
peoples collective memory. The
type from my old battered
type-writer reminds me of
discovering my mothers secret
poems. The pattern of simple
animal shapes on the
Phrenology III head is taken
from a 1970s toy pattern book
and has that bitter sweet
nostalgic quality. Modern life
requires that everything is
clean and shiny and safe,
kitemarked and numbered, my
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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo exhibitions
2008 Frou-Frou, Unit 9
Gallery, Bradford
2007 Poison, south Square
Gallery, Bradford
2006 AtoB, Gallerija Celica,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Group exhibitions
2008/9 Projekt Dodai, Skuc
Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008 Ship of Fools, Yarra
Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne,
Australia
2008 Flesh, Yorkshire Craft
Centre, Bradford (prize
winner)
2008 SCOPE ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
As my mother would say:
Morwenna Catt is "not a happy
bunny." Nor are the
embroidered cloth rabbit
sculptures she makes in order
to 'take recognizable
artefacts and tales from
childhood and subvert them
into something malformed,
battered and bruised; to evoke
that darker side of childhood
experience.'
Like the ...
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Collections:
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Commissions:
Public commissions
2008 Shipley Town Centre Stone
& Ironwork Sculpture, Shipley
Council, Shipley Town Centre
2005 'Home Is ....' Textile
Project - Cabinet of
Curiosities, English Heritage,
Lincoln
2005 With This Pencil I Can .
. Outdoor Table Commission,
Bradford Museums & Galleries,
Brackenhall Countryside
Centre, Baildon, Bradford
2003 City Centre Banners,
Lincoln City Council, Lincoln
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Morwenna Catt's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Morwenna Catt's Portfolio. Browse Catt's body of work: Childhood is a recurring theme in my work, I try to dispel Fairy Tale mythologies, stripping back to the bare bones of experience and uncovering some kind of underlying truth using personal narratives alongside subverted imagery. I use the familiar and the nostalgic as a trigger, but disrupt the reading. In recent works the family unit is transformed into animals, either drawn, painted or constructed as 3D textiles; malformed, battered and bruised to evoke the darker side of family life. I am preoccupied with our relationships to trigger objects, memory, nostalgia and psychosis.
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Phrenology, Wolf, Big Enough to Eat You, 2008
Textile,
9 x 14 X 12 inches
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Phrenology , Red Riding Hood, Small Enough to be E, 2009
Textile,
23 x 32 X 34 cm
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Carnivore, 2008
Acrylic Painting,
120 x 120 X 7 cm
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Love Light as a Feather, 2007
Textile,
20 x 40 X 25 cm
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Shot, 2007
Acrylic Painting,
120 x 120 X 5 cm
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Dead Cloud, 2007
Pen Drawing,
19 x 28 cm
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