Siobhan Morgan

My practice works with grief through material repetition, where slow physical labour becomes a way of engaging with loss that language cannot reach. The installation is built from hand-rolled paper tubes bound with thread and supported by stoneware feet. Some tubes house porcelain sorrow-objects, while others remain empty. Rather than moving toward resolution, the work holds open the shifting nature of grief. The tubes are fragile, the thread is thin, and the joins remain visible to anyone who comes close. Positioned openly in the light, the structure offers no shelter and makes no attempt to conceal its making.

Exhibition Statement

Two hundred and two stoneware feet anchor the installation to the gallery floor, supporting a rising structure of interwoven paper tubes. Where the tubes meet, small nests hold porcelain sorrow-objects lashed carefully into place, introducing moments of stillness and weight within the larger form. Empty feet stand beside the supporting ones, spreading a quiet, fruitless repetition across the space. The arrangement gives visitors room to move around the work, drawing closer to observe the relationships between the feet, the tubes, the thread, and the porcelain objects, and the way each element depends on the others.

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