Installation view of Mother, Annie Morris, 2012 (detail)
Installation view of Mother, Annie Morris, 2012
Annie Morris
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‘The demands made by human activities – such as agriculture, forestry, energy production, road building and poaching – are all having a serious impact. The growing danger from climate change could also result in devastating consequences for our natural environment in the coming years. We work to stabilise or increase their numbers through practical conservation programmes and by challenging the trade in endangered wildlife. Protecting the world's species and their habitats lies at the heart of WWF's mission to conserve the earth's biodiversity. While important in their own right, species are also critical for maintaining the fundamental balance of ecosystems’ – extraction from www.wwf.org.uk
“After reading the above statement on the WWF website I started to think of a work that could resemble the idea of new growth and of a new life. In a previous body of work I dealt with the emotional subject of stillbirth. Something I went through myself a year ago. Within this work I used brightly painted coloured egg shape and breast shape balls that referenced the start of life and giving hope to new life. Intertwined within a netting of black and white ink that referenced capturing and engulfing the life before it starts. The piece I have made for Pandamonium is a dress/sculpture made up of papier mache and plaster balls painted in strong colours attached to a canvas dress. The balls refer somewhat to a spawn of a new biosystem being held by the weight of the canvas almost trying to brake free of the constraints of the challenging trade that endangered wildlife in todays world face and giving hope to the new beginning.” - Annie Morris
Drawing upon a personal experience and connecting it to her sensitivity towards the larger living planet, Annie Morris has created Mother, a very tender and personal piece. Having gone through a difficult occurrence, Morris decided to focus on the positive aspects and so too, despite all the trials and tribulations we face with the destruction of the natural world, these vibrantly painted egg-shaped orbs which are tightly woven into a canvas dress remind us that perseverance and adaptability are at mother earth’s core and so Morris’ piece evokes hope and the fragility of new beginnings.
Exhibitions
WWF Pandamonium 2, Hyde Park, London, 2012
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