Morag Smith
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What is place? What is it that changes a landscape from a scenic view to somewhere that has a sense of the known? Through an exploration of time and personal experience, thinking about how I came to know the North West Highlands and Islands has enabled me to give definition to my sense of this landscape as place.
Distilling this sense of knowing the landscape from place into final pieces is driven by a process-led practice, where one step leads to another, with accidental discoveries along the way, creating a highly experimental mix. With intuition as my guide, and following where the process leads, I use photography, found text, found materials and printmaking. In current work this has led to the industrial materials of concrete, resin, plaster and paints, which, combined with found moulds, allow for the creation of one-off casts.
The physicality of making the works is paramount to the overall process, and links back to the physicality of coming to know the landscape. Emerging from this dynamic process, these works reflecting place hint at minimalism juxtaposed with an organic quality, obscuring the distinction between the industrial and the natural.
www.moragsmith.co.uk
Distilling this sense of knowing the landscape from place into final pieces is driven by a process-led practice, where one step leads to another, with accidental discoveries along the way, creating a highly experimental mix. With intuition as my guide, and following where the process leads, I use photography, found text, found materials and printmaking. In current work this has led to the industrial materials of concrete, resin, plaster and paints, which, combined with found moulds, allow for the creation of one-off casts.
The physicality of making the works is paramount to the overall process, and links back to the physicality of coming to know the landscape. Emerging from this dynamic process, these works reflecting place hint at minimalism juxtaposed with an organic quality, obscuring the distinction between the industrial and the natural.
www.moragsmith.co.uk
Morag Smith
Born, Edinburgh 1968
Education: BA Fine Art (Hons) 2.1
Moray School of Art UHI
Selected Exhibitions:
2018 Moray School of Art Degree Show, Elgin
2018 Elements of Place, Orchard Road Studios, Forres
2017 LAC Members exhibition, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
2016 New Highland Contemporary 3, Nairn Book and Arts Festival
2016 WASPS Links Studio Exhibition & Open Studios, Nairn
2016 Beautiful World: An Artists Response to the Environment, Moray School of Art, Elgin
2015 FOUND, Moray School of Arts, Elgin
2014 Here we are at Home, Pop up Scotland, Edinburgh
2013 Winter Beauty, Eden Court, Inverness
2011 West Coast Open, An Talla Solais, Ullapool
2010 Fabric of the Land, Aberdeen
Awards:
2018 Shortlisted for Visual Arts Scotland’s Graduate Showcase
2016 Highland Fine Arts & Decorative Society Prize
Teaching:
2018 Art & Writing Workshop
WEA Women in the Highlands Project, Inverness
2017 Identity – A Making Workshop
Nairn Book and Arts Festival
2015 Be Creative Workshop
W.E.A., Aviemore.
2014 Series of Art & Writing Workshops, Nairn
Work Experience:
2001 – 2012 F.E. Lecturer and Adult Education worker
1986 – 2000 P.A./Secretary up to Board of Directors level
Other:
Studio Holder, WASPS Nairn
Member Highland Print Studio, Inverness
Visual Arts Scotland associate membership
Member Scottish Artists Union
Born, Edinburgh 1968
Education: BA Fine Art (Hons) 2.1
Moray School of Art UHI
Selected Exhibitions:
2018 Moray School of Art Degree Show, Elgin
2018 Elements of Place, Orchard Road Studios, Forres
2017 LAC Members exhibition, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
2016 New Highland Contemporary 3, Nairn Book and Arts Festival
2016 WASPS Links Studio Exhibition & Open Studios, Nairn
2016 Beautiful World: An Artists Response to the Environment, Moray School of Art, Elgin
2015 FOUND, Moray School of Arts, Elgin
2014 Here we are at Home, Pop up Scotland, Edinburgh
2013 Winter Beauty, Eden Court, Inverness
2011 West Coast Open, An Talla Solais, Ullapool
2010 Fabric of the Land, Aberdeen
Awards:
2018 Shortlisted for Visual Arts Scotland’s Graduate Showcase
2016 Highland Fine Arts & Decorative Society Prize
Teaching:
2018 Art & Writing Workshop
WEA Women in the Highlands Project, Inverness
2017 Identity – A Making Workshop
Nairn Book and Arts Festival
2015 Be Creative Workshop
W.E.A., Aviemore.
2014 Series of Art & Writing Workshops, Nairn
Work Experience:
2001 – 2012 F.E. Lecturer and Adult Education worker
1986 – 2000 P.A./Secretary up to Board of Directors level
Other:
Studio Holder, WASPS Nairn
Member Highland Print Studio, Inverness
Visual Arts Scotland associate membership
Member Scottish Artists Union
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