Adam Morrigan: a bit about me!

Born Swindon Wiltshire 2nd April 1969 Father an artist sculptor and Mother a nurse.
Education:
I am self educated in the processes I now employ, however, education is fundamental to the understanding of my art, its process, and technique.  Critique is welcomed. I have attended many courses in Art processes, my earliest endeavors as an Artist started with my working as a Life model which lead to a course in Ceramics at Stroud Art College. This fueled my already established interest in the Art Process as a means of expression and I decided to travel and escape my locale. I became homeless, traveling the length and breadth of the country at a time when the New Age Traveller scene was still active and enjoying a vibrant and creative social environment. I became part of a London based Squatting scene, ( posse ) taking over dwellings left empty, doing them up, being evicted, and moving on, always leaving them in better condition than we found them in, with a number of installations and sculptures in place from the junk we found. This was a collective Art process, creating a better environment to live in, at a time when civil liberties were being reduced with the advent of the Council Tax and Criminal Justice Act, and homelessness was rife. I worked for agencies carrying out various roles, from school Janitor to civil servant, meeting a vast range of different peoples and cultures. I decided to travel abroad and spent many months out of the country experiencing life on a shoe string, as usual, and the inspiring Arts of Europe, Asia, Africa and the America’s enriched my understanding. I became more and more interested in the indigenous arts culture of each people I came into contact with. The Art process at its most pure form, giving reference to the spiritual nature of all things and the transition of matter through the process of living with intimate engagement. This process transforms matter into new life. This interest has shaped my awareness, and as a result my Art process. The following 14 years of research including, education in the fields of sociology, politics, economics, and shamanic exploration have now placed me in a position as Artisan and Artist. For the past three of these years, I teach Leather-work for an educational trust. Engaging fully with the process, from its most pure form, in it’s indigenous roots, too it most poignant and alienated processes, where the hide ( Animal ) receives no developed contact other than machine processing. It is this understanding that has lead directly to my confrontational process using non industrialized methods, to show the separateness we face in an intensively rationalized society. Ultimately this is a reflection on our received helplessness and codependent relationships, which ultimately leads to unhappiness. Art is not about what we make, but what we become by making it. I am deliberately exploring this deprivation of connection to the intimate, because these processes are necessary for living, and it stimulates a reaction to that, which would have been very familiar to our ancestors. History plays a very important part of this understanding, post industrial and pre-industrial, in fact back to the very cave itself. This understanding is inspired by the works of many different cultures, artists and essayists,  Monet, William Morris, and John Ruskin are but a few and I continue to add more to the list every day.
I continue to involve myself in community lead projects, building super large puppets for use in carnival and running workshops for various age ranges, exploring the nature of creativity in relation to my process, enabling participants to explore their own.
Key word: Enjoy.