CATRIN MORGAN: The Age of Wire and String

CATRIN MORGAN: THE AGE OF WIRE AND STRING

dalla Rosa Gallery 03 - 24.05.2013

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Catrin Morgan, (left to right) Animal Husband (IX, X, XI) (2013), pencil on gesso

CATRIN MORGAN: THE AGE OF WIRE AND STRING 3 - 24 May 2013, dalla Rosa Gallery The exhibition presents artwork by Catrin Morgan for the new hardback edition of Ben Marcus’ book The Age of Wire and String published by Granta Books. This will be accompanied by a wider body of work which takes the novel as its starting point, developing a language that draws from vintage photos, geological diagrams, and meteorology.

The Age of Wire and String is a classic of innovative fiction, a handbook for surviving in a strange new world both like and unlike our own, one in which language has undergone a surreal revolution and words can no longer be trusted. In approaching the text Catrin Morgan’s intention is to make images that introduce a similar revolution to the idea of illustrated fiction.

About the Artist Catrin Morgan completed an MA in Communication Art and Design at the Royal College of Art in 2008. She has now returned to the RCA in order to undertake a practice based PhD exploring the relationship between illustration and deception. In 2011 she received a scholarship from the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust in support of her research. Her first book, Phantom Settlements, a collaborative project with Mireille Fauchon was published in June 2011 by Ditto Press. She teaches at University College Falmouth and Norwich University College of the Arts. Catrin was part of Cross Section/02 a group show at dalla Rosa Gallery that also featured work by Benjamin Bridges (December 2012).

About the novel In The Age of Wire and String Ben Marcus welds together a new reality from the scrapheap of the past. Dogs, birds, horses, automobiles and the weather are some of the recycled elements in Marcus’s first collection - part fiction, part handbook - as familiar objects take on markedly unfamiliar meanings. Gradually, this makeshift world, in its defiance of the laws of physics and language, finds a foundation in its own implausibility, as Marcus produces new feelings and sensations - both comic and disturbing - in the definitive guide to an unpredictable yet exhilarating plane of existence. (Granta Books) For further information contact hello@dallarosagallery.com All installation photos by Philip John Jones.

Thanks to Valerio Di Lucente at Studio Julia, www.julia.uk.com

Catrin Morgan, Continuous Winter In Law (2007), gouache on paper

Catrin Morgan, Animal Husband (III) (2013), litho print edition of 20

Catrin Morgan: The Age of Wire and String at dalla Rosa Gallery, installation view

Catrin Morgan: The Age of Wire and String at dalla Rosa Gallery, installation view

CATRIN MORGAN Publications 2013 Illustration of Ben Marcus’ novel The Age of Wire and String, published by Granta Books 2011 Phantom Settlements in collaboration with Mireille Fauchon, Ditto Press Residency 2010 - 11 Florence Trust (London), one year residency Exhibitions 2013 The Age of Wire and String, dalla Rosa Gallery, London (solo) We are what we hide, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine (USA) 2012 Cross Section/02 (with Benjamin Bridges), dalla Rosa Gallery, London 2011 Florence Trust Summer Show, London Fieldwork, Regency House, Brighton 2010 Florence Trust Open Studios, London 2009 She dreams that they are somewhere near. They are somewhere near, Bromley House Library, Nottingham Butterfly, Fulham Palace, London 2008 Pocom Comica Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, London Talent, Designhuis, Eindhoven (Netherlands) 2007 We came to take your jobs away, Hockney Gallery, London We came to take your jobs away, Spodnji KneŞji Dvorec, Celje (Slovenia) 5x5, Hockney Gallery, London 21g, Dazed and Confused Gallery, London 2005 September 29th 1860, 1851 Gallery, Nottingham

opposite page: Catrin Morgan, Arm in Biology (2012), ink on paper

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