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.
CV & Education
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
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
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
