Artist statement
Morag Colquhoun's recent work includes video, sculpture, installation, text and performance. She often works site-specifically with communities in environmental contexts and is interested in developing work that emerges from a zone of uncertainty, exchange and dialogue. In
People are Still the Same, a project supported by Safle, Colquhoun explored the construction of a contentious gas pipeline across South Wales with anti-pipeline protesters and local people. She combined renewable energy technologies with digital audio and video in artworks that probed the developing uncertainties of the fossil fuel era in relation to the archaic, the technological, the natural and the cultural.
Qualifications and training
- 2009 MA Fine Art, Distinction, Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC
Solo exhibitions
- 2008 People are Still the Same, Penpont, Brecon
- 2004 River/Forest (with Claire Barber), Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
Group exhibitions
- 2009 Stad yr Ystad - State of the Estate, Penpont, Brecon
- 2007 Parclife, Penpont, Brecon (more info)
- 2006 Surface, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
- 2003 Material Spaces, Tullie House Art Gallery, Carlisle
- 2002 Visual Arts Pavilion, National Eisteddfod of Wales, St. Davids
Residencies
- 2007 Trans Wales Gas Pipeline Project, Safle, South Wales (more info)
- 2004 River/Forest, Oriel Davies Gallery/Forestry Commission, Hafren Forest, Newtown
- 2000 Artist in Residence, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown
- 1994 Artist in Residence, Arts Council of Wales, Penpont, Brecon
Public commissions
- 2007 The Things We Know are More Beautiful, Herefordshire Council, Kinnersley
- 2006 Renewable, Powys County Council, New Radnor
- 2004 Age of Mammals, A4E/Shrewsbury & Atcham Council, Shrewsbury
- 2001 Black Welsh Mountain, National Eisteddfod Wales/Safle, Denbigh
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2006 Creative Wales Award, Arts Council of Wales, Cardiff
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