Jade Morris
Jade Morris
Jade Morris

Body on Canvas

My body as a source of reflection, an improvisation, I let the work and my body flow freely onto the canvas. I play with my mind.
With an intention to liberate both mind and body with paint, I use the canvas as my reflective medium. I don't think consciously until my hand stops the flow of the paint.
This isn't the usual way that I work with paint, but I wanted to place myself in an uncomfortable situation in order to break free from restrictive ways of working and also seeing.
My intention is to share a sense of liberation and freedom. A longing to break free.

Emigre

Pencil drawing on paper, from a series of five drawings taken from a private sketchbook that I had kept for two years. I wanted to reveal parts of the  private, in order to share a side of myself which is veiled and unseen. Memory and identity are things which I focus on during the process of drawing, I have a desire to draw out the hidden, the things that are kept from us, either by ourselves or a heirarchy.

Untitled and Silent Stare

Tortured, twisted human figures morph into tree trunks – both gruesome and lyrical.  This is an agonising insight into personal anguish, whilst also revealing something about a universal unease. Torment and repressed emotion is allowed to surface.  Obsessively and intricately rendered.

Artist Statement


Within my practice I focus on revealing the hidden, what is unseen, unheard and unnoticed, and I use fear as a tool. I think it is important to put ourselves in fearful situations; to do something that unnerves us. Fear is an emotion just like any other, but is one that - when experienced - makes you feel alive.
I aim to influence others by expressing my sexuality and exploration of nature through mediums such as painting, drawing, poetry, film and performance. I am interested in how our bodies interact/connect with nature, movement and sound, and the unconscious and female identity.

Education


Sheffield Hallam University, September 2007-June 2010
Contemporary Fine Art, BA Hons, 2:1
Graduated November 2010

Barnsley College, September 2006 – June 2007
Art and Design, Merit

The Foulstone School, Darfield
Septmeber 1998 – June 2003
Qualifications: 7 GCSE's


Exhibitions


'Creating Identities' – Bloc Projects, Sheffield – July 2010. A project that took place over 6 weeks focusing and exploring ideas of identity, a group exhibition was created at the end of the 6 weeks with a wide variety of works including drawing, photography and film.


‘Drawn’ – Clock Tower Gallery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield – August 2010. The exhibition featured drawings by 20 artists in a wide range of media and styles.

‘Too Much Is Barely Enough’ – Bloc Projects, Sheffield – January 2011.
A group show of contemporary watercolours. The five featured artists shared a common interest in experimenting with the use of the traditional medium to create unnerving and unusual imagery.

Forthcoming – ‘Here Comes The Reverie’ - Coterie Gallery, High Green
(June 2011). An extension of the group show of contemporary
watercolours.

‘With Our Heads In Our Hands’ – The Last Gallery, Dyfed, Wales (July 2011)

‘It’s been here all the time’ – Clock Tower Gallery, Sheffield (September 2011)