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I work across media in textiles (2D & 3D), painting, drawing, light boxes and installation.

Childhood is a recurring theme in my work, I try to dispel Fairy Tale mythologies, stripping back to the bare bones of experience and uncovering some kind of underlying truth using personal narratives alongside subverted imagery. I use the familiar and the nostalgic as a trigger, but disrupt the reading. In recent works the family unit is transformed into animals, either drawn, painted or constructed as 3D textiles; malformed, battered and bruised to evoke the darker side of family life. I am preoccupied with our relationships to trigger objects, memory, nostalgia and psychosis.

My work is very ‘hand-made’ – it can look laborious and clumsy, scrawled with hand written text and the faded words from an old ribbon typewriter. I want the work to have a wounded ‘authenticity’ and try to use evocative image and text/process to tap into peoples collective memory. The type from my old battered type-writer reminds me of discovering my mothers secret poems. The pattern of simple animal shapes on the Phrenology III head is taken from a 1970s toy pattern book and has that bitter sweet nostalgic quality. Modern life requires that everything is clean and shiny and safe, kitemarked and numbered, my work is the antithesis of this – its slightly grubby, pitiful in its hand-made grotesqueness, the threads hang loose and needles project dangerously from stitched mouths.

I am a freelance studio based artist. I am a part- time lecturer in college part-time and manage community projects as well as having independent clients for my large scale work. I have worked on several large scale interior and exterior public art commissions for private clients and City Councils. I have worked extensively through consultation with communities. Sometimes this has been purely an exercise in gathering ideas and creating a buzz around an issue, sometimes creating higher profile pieces for public display in response to workshops and sharing ideas.

I work on commission projects and residencies as well as exhibiting nationally & internationally; most recently at The Museum of Arts and Design in New York. My work is currently at Jack the Pelican Gallery in New York and Gallery Skuc in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

More of my work can be seen at:
http://www.morwennacatt.co.uk
http://channelfur.blogspot.com

phrenology III (child)

2007
3D textile
34cm high

Phrenology II mother

2007
embroidered and printed textile
32cm high

Betrayal

2006
X-ray photograph on light box
45 x 35 x 12

Shot

2007
acrylic on canvas with hand stitching
120 x 120

Dead Cloud

2007
acrylic painting on canvas with hand stitching
120x120

Moving Stories

2006
installation / projection

200 Rabbits to Hide Behind...

2003
textile
240 x 240

Heel

2000
handstitched 3D textile & X-ray photograph on lightbox
lightbox 45x35x12

Phrenology (wolf) Big Enough to Eat You

2008
embroidered & printed 3D textile
34cm x 26cm x26cm approx

Phrenology (Red Riding Hood) Small Enough to be Eaten

2008
embroidered & printed 3D textile
34cm x 26cm x26cm approx

Carnivore

2008
Acrylic on canvas
120cm x 120cm