INSIGHT: Week 14 | Mark Corfield-Moore

INSIGHT IS A NEW ONLINE PLATFORM PRESENTED BY PIPPY HOULDSWORTH GALLERY, DEBUTING WORK BY A DIFFERENT ARTIST EACH WEEK. NEW WORK MADE DURING LOCKDOWN WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED ALONGSIDE A SHORT VIDEO PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST.

Insight: Week 14 | Mark Corfield-Moore

Mark Corfield-Moore is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice holds woven textiles at its core. Corfield-Moore likens the process of weaving to his own thought patterns, with each work bringing together ideas and images from disparate times and places. The conception of fabrics as nomadic objects is fundamental to his work. Historically, textiles have been produced for rugs, tents and wall-hangings, amongst other uses, items that are portable and attached to no specific location. These ideas draw, in part, on the artist's own mixed Thai and British heritage, an identity he has consciously reflected in a number of weaving techniques. Corfield-Moore learned ikat in Northern Thailand where his maternal grandmother practiced as a weaver. He has also spent time in Scotland learning about tartan production.

The artist's recent works are his most autobiographical to date. Corfield-Moore was prompted to look introspectively to his own past at a time when the future seems so uncertain. These new weavings are the result of fresh experimentation with painting off the loom, a technique that incorporates a greater element of chance to create a more distinctive ikat blur. This distortion reflects on the nature of memory and our evolving relationship with the past.