Rhea Morton is an artist, educator and researcher. Her practice is process-driven with material engagement at it’s core.
Currently exploring a set of overlapping dialogues between artist, glass, parian clay and heat, she sets up an environment that fosters an intimate exchange as the materials respond to each other in the kiln. Post-firing, mesmerising patterns emerge as light streams through the materials. These are made tangible through the use of photograms.
Creating space for the materials to be is important to her practice; playing with control and agency, recognising the role of each tool and material in the work as a whole.
This work explores the potential to consider practice as a collective act; acknowledging the agency and importance of both material and maker, noticing how each impacts the making process and is affected by the intimate relationships that develop between them.
A desire to work with materials is deeply rooted in her pedagogical engagement with others; a pedagogy that is strongly connected to play as an act of discovery, or indeed just a way of existing in the world.
Education
MA Fine Art Ceramics - Bath School of Art
PGCE Upper Primary Art - University of Exeter
BA hons Fine Art (Contemporary Practices) - Dartington College of Arts
Exhibitions
2024 Press Play (upcoming group show) St. Dunstan’s House, Bristol
2024 Connection and Belonging
(Education residency and curated show with learners work)
Greenway Gallery, Welton, Somerset
2023 Bath Art Prize (group show) 44ad Artspace, Bath
2023 ‘Sense of place’ Sculpture exhibition - (group show)
Stone Lane Gardens, Chagford, Devon
2022 MA degree show Bath Spa Univeristy
2022 Play the Museum (Group Show) Holburn Museum, Bath 2019 Visage (Group Show) - Malago, Bristol