Heather and Ivan Morison at Future50

Heather and Ivan Morison record their real lives through both a series of straightforward documentation and via weaving imaginary narratives from what they find along the way. They throw themselves completely into each new project with the fervour of the amateur enthusiast, whether cultivating a garden in Birmingham or writing a book whilst sailing from China to New Zealand.

During their journeys – and the documenting and cataloguing of what they find – they collect and collate their many experiences and this is what becomes 'the work'. Subject and context are intertwined. In each endeavour, there is always the potential for failure – of being exposed as an incompetent or beginner. There is both a genuine innocence and honesty in their methods, even when presented in a completely fictionalised form. Their self-mythology manages to be neither naive nor cynical, more an alternative way for looking at a place or a thing.