The Stones Cry out - Dorothy Morris
31st August - 9th September
The exhibition is a response to the futility of war especially the horrendous slaughter of thousands of Palastinians in Gaza.
This exhibition hope to highlight the suffering of the Palastinians. This installation includes my artworks and music composed by Susan Matthews. Art works are for sale and 50% of all sales are in aid of West Wales Friends of Palestine who support a tent school in Gaza.
“Children are never our enemies , they are the innocent vicitms of conflict.” West Wales Friends of Palastine try to help ease their sufferings by raising funds to provide education medicine and general support. I hope this exhibition helps to spread empathy for the suffering of others and bring about action to produce peaceful resolutions to conflicts.
Dorothy’s work begins, quite naturally, at the water’s edge. Living in Ferryside, where land, river and sky are in a state of almost constant negotiation, she is deeply influenced by the particular rhythms of this coastal landscape. It is an idyllic place in which to work, certainly, but also a restless one: tides advance and retreat, light alters familiar forms, and the weather continually redraws the horizon. These shifts find their way into her work.
An experienced artist, teacher and lecturer, Dorothy has exhibited widely in selected exhibitions throughout Wales and Britain, as well as internationally, including in Russia. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fashion and Textiles and an MA in Fine Art from the Swansea Institute of Higher Education, bringing to her practice both a strong understanding of materials and a willingness to disregard the boundaries between disciplines.
Textiles, ceramics and mixed media sit comfortably alongside watercolour and acrylic. Dorothy is not especially interested in remaining faithful to a single material or process; experimentation is part of the language of the work. One material suggests another, one technique interrupts the certainty of the last, and new possibilities are continually explored.
Yet beneath this diversity there remains a constant: place. Ferryside, her home village, is more than simply a source of subject matter. Its shoreline, changing waters, weather and expansive skies provide an enduring visual vocabulary. Dorothy’s work grows from the experience of living within this landscape rather than merely looking at it — a sustained conversation between material, memory and the ever-changing edge of the sea.