Fiona Morley

“My work is a three dimensional interpretation of drawing. Having a strong background in drawing, and as a result of specialising in sculpture at college, I discovered that the use of wire brought together both disciplines and enabled the expansion of the former into a three dimensional realm. Wire engenders a malleable, spontaneous way of working that allows the manipulation of line to create form. Using wire, the definition of form comes as much from the voids as the material itself. The human form dominates my work. I am interested in the body’s endless complexity and try to convey a different persona in each creation. The human form is transient and ultimately fragile, the web like weave of wire is able to communicate this nature. Lines in wire, and the corresponding shadows they throw, bring an ethereal element to the subject. This further conveys the delicateness of the form. For me the body is a vehicle inside which life exists rather than a rigid, permanent thing.”

Fiona Morley