The Green Room Exhibitions – Janet Morris.

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Musical Chairs

The work focuses on visiting the past, as if flicking through a stale, sticky, family album. Remembering for example a perfect photograph of family home life, siblings lined up in an interior room with stark wallpaper behind. The paintings and drawings express the sense of place; how things were and how displaced memories are revisited.

The process is quick and energetic using brash  bold, bright colours. The  square perfectly shaped canvas is used as it contradicts the distorted placement of the figure within the home space. The mundane rhythm of domesticity is created through repeated patterns crudely layered with complementary brush strokes surrounded by empty chairs. This symbolises the home, motherhood and loss.

Artist Bio

Janet Morris is a local artist whose work relates to the importance of family dynamics within the domestic environment; whether as a place of belonging, protection or even imprisonment. She reflects on motherhood and the ghosts of memories and loss often hidden and repressed within a poignant survival.

Janet graduated with a BA in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Ulster in 2011. Since then she has exhibited extensively in group shows in Belfast, Lisburn, Dublin and Wexford; including for the Arts Society of Ulster and the Royal Ulster Academy.