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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 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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Exhibitions for Morwenna Catt:
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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 New York Art Fair, Jack the Pelican Presents stand, New York
2007/8 Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
2007 Art for Nothing, Mestna Galerija, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2007 Art for Nothing, Hoxton Square Gallery, London
2006 The French Re-Evolution, Bethnal Green Working Mens Club, London
2006 In Two Minds, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax
2006 Au creux du Dsir, Hackney Empire Theatre, London (more info)
2005 In Two Minds, Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford
2005 Illuminate Launch Event, Illuminate Festival, Centenary Square, Bradford City Centre (more info)
2004 Tongue in Cheek, Northern Quarter Gallery, Manchester
2003 Arena Open (Prize winner), Arena Gallery, Liverpool
2003 The Tenderness of Pain, Tower Contemporary Arts Centre, York
2002 Liverpool Biennial, The Independent (Afoundation), Liverpool
2001 Yorkshire Open (Prize winner), Wakefield Arts Mill, Wakefield
2001 Idea, Mongrel Monitor Project, Showrooms, Sheffield
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