Emmeline Morris
1. Flesh Domes Series
Stoneware ceramic sculptures with LED lighting
These ceramic lamps depicting flesh creates a juxtaposition between the materialised form of ceramic, a medium that ceases disintegration after thousands of years contrasts the surface design of flesh and the body. The ephemerality of life and the body with the permanent state of ceramic form is done with intention to connect with the world around us even after the body is gone. Even though we as a species view body as the representation of the persona, the forms of these pieces are warped and flowing to counter humanities great need to reflect the self through perfect replication. One is not their body, the mind can only perceive parts of one in this anthropomorphic perplexing cluster of nothing and everything. It is through a later diagnosis of the artist that this questioning of self prevails.
This series interacts in its physicality of Morris' replicated body, the outside world, and between is the thin glass glaze forlornly detaching each.
2. Empathy
Mixed media - Acrylic Painting, Gouache, Ink; 124x186cm
In a surreal void scape, the humanoid figure is autonomous yet dependent. Away from the dying civilisation, this being merges emphatically yet empathetically with the creature. Its body wants to be with this life but the creature is poisoned. This work aims to reflect the uneasy perspective of being a human on Earth with a dispirited future and the desire to connect with nature.
Emmeline Morris is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who creates works in reaction to personal experiences of disconnection, dissociation, and overstimulation in relation to their mental disabilities. These concepts link to the perception of social structures and hierarchy through a AFAB Autistic lens; self referential visual language is inspired to parody the concerns of public visibility by exposing this experience though a coded confessional.
Through the conjunction of two dimensional painting, video work with three dimensional ceramic sculpture, a reflection of Emmeline's ontological being is presented for the public eye.
