Newcastle University MFA Summer Exhibition 2015 - Nigel Morgan - Hiraeth

"In Welsh the word hiraeth offers a way into understanding our yearning for the elusive something that nature and landscape means to us; analogous to an unattainable longing for a place, or perhaps a person, the language of landscape becomes metaphoric to an emotional language of the soul. The language of landscape is a language of loss, of distance, of longing, and the more we try to define it the less clear it becomes."

"Landscape is made and it is the mediator by which nature has been perceived as something other. This continues to be a cultural problem:the measurement and technological representation of landscape reinforces an anxiety over our distancing from nature; however now, in the Anthropocene, everything is landscape and landscape can re-connect us to nature, it is a real material connection."

"This work is an attempt to understand this longing, through the use of nature, the matter of landscape."

Being Landscape: The Landscape is a creation of and by ourselves and our imagination. It is ‘the peculiar moment of being present to perception [the] ‘matter of experience’… the materiality of what is otherwise an ephemeral and contingent snatch of lived experience.’ J. J. Marshall, p202, Landscape Theory. 2008.

The risographs have arrived!

Rather than designing a bound catalogue as such, we decided to produce a set of double sided A3 risograph prints for the MFA Summer Exhibition. We used Risotto, Each artist has chosen an image of their work for the front of their risograph, and on the back of all the risograph prints is an essay by Matthew Hearn  titled inbetweenness... which discusses the work of each artists in the exhibition.

Here is a sneak preview of the risographs, but as each print is an artwork in itself, the only real way to  appreciate the work is to see it in person. All the more reason to come along to the exhibition, and buy a print or two for you to enjoy in your own home. 

Helen Shaddock

Ute Kirkwood

Soon Hwang

Liying Zhao

Sofija R.L. Sutton

Paul Martin Hughes

Nigel Morgan

Sarah Dunn

Mirela Bistran

Alex Charrington

Yein Son

Send me an email if you would like to buy a signed limited editioned risograph print.