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INSIGHT: Week 14 | Mark Corfield-Moore

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30 September - 13 October 2020
  • Insight: Week 14 | Mark Corfield-Moore

    30 September-13 October
  • 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.

  • Spicy Lunch (Weymouth Beach), 2020 dyed warp, handwoven cotton 185 x 100 cm, 72 7/8 x 39 3/8 in £6,000.00...

    Spicy Lunch (Weymouth Beach), 2020

    dyed warp, handwoven cotton
    185 x 100 cm, 72 7/8 x 39 3/8 in

    £6,000.00 (ex tax)

     

    Spicy Lunch (Weymouth Beach) looks back at the artist’s early memory of eating Thai food on the beach in Dorset with his aunt and grandmother. The meal of chicken and Som Tam green papaya salad, represented here by the bowl used for its preparation, is depicted beneath a sunshade, evoking a moment of childhood nostalgia that encompasses two cultures. Corfield-Moore has adopted the image of the parasol in previous work, reflecting on the object as an itinerant marker of space. Here he pinpoints a symbolic moment from his early years, whilst acknowledging the fragility of memory through the instability of the blurred image.

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  • ‘The interesting thing is that you get ikat from Uzbekistan to Indonesia, but also tartan in northern Thailand, even though it’s synonymous with British brands,’ says the textile artist. ‘I’m interested in these cross-overs, rather than saying “this is British and this is Thai”.’

    Mark Corfield-Moore, Crafts Council, 2019

  • Moving House, 2020 dyed warp, handwoven cotton 185 x 100 cm, 72 7/8 x 39 3/8 in £6,000.00 (ex tax)...

     

    Moving House, 2020

    dyed warp, handwoven cotton
    185 x 100 cm, 72 7/8 x 39 3/8 in

    £6,000.00 (ex tax)

     

    Moving House recalls the first time the artist took a plane from Bangkok to the UK, aged five. Though he has returned to Thailand on many occasions since, this moment commemorates a significant point of transition. Woven in two halves, the work’s division is marked out by Bangkok and Dorset, each symbolised through architecture and marked out in text. The composition of the work looks to traditional Thai textiles that are framed by bands of pattern above and below a central motif. Meditating on the significance of place, the work considers the artist’s mixed-race heritage and the nomadic character that identity can adopt.

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    • Mark Corfield-Moore, Curtain Twitcher, 2020
      Mark Corfield-Moore, Curtain Twitcher, 2020
    • Mark Corfield-Moore, Anonymity through Conformity, 2020
      Mark Corfield-Moore, Anonymity through Conformity, 2020
    • Mark Corfield-Moore, Half Child, 2020
      Mark Corfield-Moore, Half Child, 2020
  •  ‘Mark’s work stood out for his striking, intercultural approach to weaving practices and the strength of his research’

     Lilli Geissendorfer, Director of Jerwood Arts, Crafts Council, 2019

  • About Mark Corfield-Moore

    About Mark Corfield-Moore

    Mark Corfield-Moore (b. 1988, Bangkok) has a BA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London (2015), and a Post-Graduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools, London (2018). In 2019 Corfield-Moore was selected for the 2019 Jerwood Makers Open. The award commissioned a new series of weavings, first presented at the Jerwood Space, London. The artist spoke about his work with Ann Coxon, curator of International Art at Tate Modern, as part of an event running alongside the exhibition. Jerwood Makers Open has subsequently toured to the National Centre for Craft and Design, Lincolnshire (2019), and Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (2020). The artist's first solo exhibition, At Your Service, was presented at Wolfson College, Cambridge, in 2018. Recent group exhibitions include New Arts Centre, Roche Court (2020); Choi & Lager, Cologne (2019); Broadway Gallery, Letchworth (2019);  GSL Projekt, Berlin (2019); PADA Studios, Lisbon (2019); and the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018).

  • Press

    • Jerwood Arts

      Jerwood Arts

      29 July 2019

      Artist Mark Corfield-Moore discusses his new series of weavings with Ann Coxon, Curator of International Art at Tate Modern.

    • this is tomorrow

      this is tomorrow

      14 July 2019

      Jerwood Makers Open. Review by Bernard Hay

    • Craft Magazine

      Craft Magazine

      24 June 2019

      Weaving Stories: Mark Corefield-Moore reveals his inspirations. By Debika Ray

    • Interview

      Interview

      August 2018

      Interview: Mark Corfield-Moore. By Hector Campbell 

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