FROM FOSSILS TO 4X4S

London–based artist Catherine Morland will be showing an installation of drawings at the Kuona Trust. Inspired by recent trips to Kenya, Morland’s watercolours evoke a oneric world of shifting morphing elements including prehistoric skulls, tropical foliage, night-lit gardens, security guards, historical figures, neon signage, and
city monuments.

Catherine Morland was born in Geneva and is based in London. She studied at the Royal College of Art in London and exhibits in the UK. Her work is drawing based. She uses a variety of media and approaches to explore the boundaries of the drawing process.
Recurrent themes in her work are memory and place, sensory phenomena, escapism, altered states of consciousness, and the elusive nature of memory.

Current work focuses on specific landscapes, places, people and events. Using recent trips to Kenya as a frame of reference she is exploring both personal history and events in her own county’s past.

From Fossils to 4×4’s is an on-going series of work that references Britain’s colonial past, the symbolic presence of the ‘development’ industry in Nairobi, and the expatriate gaze in contemporary Kenya.

During this trip Catherine will visit Kenya’s renowned pre-historic sites and attempt to explore a landscape whose concealed history tells a story of our ancestors, origins, and evolution.

www.catherinemorland.com

The exhibition opens Wednesday 30th April from 6pm

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