Kelly Morris
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Kelly Morris works with clay, creating sculptural forms, figures, vessels, and ceramics-based multimedia installations.
She studies studio ceramics at Bedford Arts and Crafts Centre, and also is extensively self taught, drawing on a background in medicine, science, and writing to inform her work.
A separation or disconnection of the human from what we call Nature is becoming characteristic of our society. In her work, she seeks to reconnect, to inspire an emotional relation or kinship with narratives of nature. Her works are inspired by nature as perceived in many human ways - from the ecological to the microscopic, from the social to the spiritual.
Kelly writes that 'clay is a kind of ‘being’ in itself - a being that has a visceral body, an ancestry, and even a type of memory. The transformation of clay to ceramic involves a harsh and sometimes unpredictable alchemy of elements - earth, air, fire, metal, water –, that emulates a kind of evolution or experience.'
In a way, this process reflects ancient narratives in which humans were created from clay, and so her work is often influenced by myths, symbols, and archetypes of nature.
She studies studio ceramics at Bedford Arts and Crafts Centre, and also is extensively self taught, drawing on a background in medicine, science, and writing to inform her work.
A separation or disconnection of the human from what we call Nature is becoming characteristic of our society. In her work, she seeks to reconnect, to inspire an emotional relation or kinship with narratives of nature. Her works are inspired by nature as perceived in many human ways - from the ecological to the microscopic, from the social to the spiritual.
Kelly writes that 'clay is a kind of ‘being’ in itself - a being that has a visceral body, an ancestry, and even a type of memory. The transformation of clay to ceramic involves a harsh and sometimes unpredictable alchemy of elements - earth, air, fire, metal, water –, that emulates a kind of evolution or experience.'
In a way, this process reflects ancient narratives in which humans were created from clay, and so her work is often influenced by myths, symbols, and archetypes of nature.
