Adam Morrigan Art

Taxidermy and friends

2010-07-11T22:31:00.000-07:00

This is Sari at work and no other does it better!!

Been away for a while

2010-02-18T12:41:00.000-08:00

I'm not dead any more!

Edible Art

2009-08-17T02:02:00.000-07:00

Dancer at Road Kill "The Last Supper"

Processed Meats cause bowel cancer "Badger Mmmmm."

2009-08-17T01:15:00.000-07:00

Who said we have to be mad to eat Road Kill..! TV Dinner anyone?

Adam Morrigan Art: Adventures is Road Kill on BBC Radio

2009-08-15T15:24:00.000-07:00

Adventures is Road Kill on BBC Radio

2009-08-15T14:46:00.000-07:00

Prince Charles: next generation faces 'living hell' unless climate change tackled

2009-07-09T00:10:00.000-07:00

Porn Economics:

The Future King gets it right "In failing the Earth, we are failing humanity."
Congratulations Urmee Khan

G8 set new global warming targets

2009-07-08T10:09:00.000-07:00

Porn Economics: Advent of the industrial disease!

Is planetary insanity something we are all supposed to agree with?

Do we have any real power to do anything about it?

G8 Slave
Too bad, too far, too little, too late, are we all slave, too the whim of the 8?

Gordon Brown to warn G8 leaders of threat of second recession

2009-07-08T00:09:00.000-07:00

Porn Economics, HIV, Chlamydia etc.. The advent of the industrial disease and the 2nd coming:
Act 1 scene 1 "no pun intended" Madness seems to have us in its grip. Are we truly the age of idiots?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/gordon-brown/5770712/Gordon-Brown-to-warn-G8-leaders-of-threat-of-second-recession.html

Brick Lane Gallery Art Acts and other incidentals

2009-06-29T04:08:00.000-07:00

196 Brick Lane

Opening night 1st July 6:30-9:00

Brick Lane Exhibit Info and Statement (G8 Mate!).

2009-06-18T08:42:00.000-07:00

Adam Morrigan: An explanation of my work.

My work contains naturally processed forms following the simple premise of working with respect. The processes I use are not entered into lightly and all the materials I use are a product of human consumption and demand (obviously).
In response to peoples shock reaction to my use of animals I feel obliged to offer this explanation.
“All synthetic and processed materials have a relative cost (Including Human) and we as adults can if we choose make conscious decisions regarding the materials we use.
Often decisions are made without full understanding and therefore, due to this fundamental flaw, without consent.”
Porn Economics is a study of what and who is for sale, attempting to demonstrate the duality of dynamic by exploring the relationship of the Bunny and the Knife.
It also has a price tag of £8,000,000.00 which may seem a lot but “Money is only a concept, choice is real.”
Road Kill Janus and the Duality of Haute Couture is irony in the extreme.
Road Kill Janus Welcomes you to the shadow of Haute Couture, fur and all.

Porn Economics, HIV, Chlamydia e.t.c..

Knife, Baking Tray, Rabbit and Dice
Cost £8,000,000.00

Road Kill Janus and the duality of Haute Couture.

Veg Tan “Road Kill” Fox Cub with Fur and Face intact, landfill.
Cost £80,000.00

Terms and References:

Haute: High Class Fashion Design (Foxy handbag)
Couture: Made to order.
Janus: Roman God of doorways depicted with two faces.
Porn: Books, TV, Film e.t.c Catering to the voyeuristic obsessive interest of a specified subject.
Economics: Supply and Demand of material goods (Including Human) to generate wealth.
HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
Chlamydia: Parasitic Bacterium, relying on other cells to produce.
E.t.c.. Further items included.
Ref: Porn Economics HIV Chlamydia e.t.c..
Ref: G8 Manipulation of Supply and demand to create consensus
Enjoy!

Brick Lane Flyer

2009-06-17T23:57:00.000-07:00

Porn Economics, HIV Chlamydia e.t.c.

2009-01-26T11:20:00.000-08:00

Porn Economics, HIV Chlamydia e.t.c.
Put one in the bank for me Bunny Boiler
And welcome to the New World Order
Money is meaningless and every-things for sale

Pinky Bunny, Blue Bunny
Rabbit in the headlights
POP!
Playboy! Play..
It’s the easy economics of the rainy day.

Who is the whore?
You or Me
Lifting the Pandora lid
My reflection
I See.
Burn baby burn

Porn Economics HIV Chlamydia e.t.c.. (from the Ignorance is Bliss series)
Brain Tan Scalp of Road Killed Rabbit (What’s up Doc!)
Iron Baking Tray, Knife

430 by 360 mm

£8000000.00

The Magna Carta 1215

2008-08-03T23:13:00.000-07:00

Road Kill Magna Carta (Ancient and Profane) 2008

Fox, ink, bone, wood, glass...

Oh yes!

Road Kill Magna Carta: A work in progress...

2008-06-13T10:39:00.000-07:00

It seems that our right, of trial by our our peers,
Is undermined by bereft, and sanguine-us ears.

Well remember the truth, we are what we eat,
And Road Kill like us, can choose to be fleet,
When we choose, to choose, and say what we want,
We wont say it with guile, it is honest, upfront.

Like a Red square Glaswegian, of human right lore
We'll stand and we'll fight, till deaths at the door.

Wat Tyler, and Diggers and Miners and Poets,
The right to live justly, is outstandingly,
Pro-gist.

So remember, remember, the truth at your feet,
Politician's mix words, with deadly deceit.

And know in your fears, we cannot live justly
In a land without Cause, or Council or,
Justice.

Road Kill Magna Carta: A work in progress...

Avec le trou,

2008-05-26T01:06:00.000-07:00

Who said art and the zeitgeist couldn't be fun. I had a very intimate experience working with this piece from start to finish, so to speak. I love what I do but understand why some would choose to give the power of making away. From Road Kill Art and "Road Kill The Last Supper" to "Ignorance is Bliss and "Avec le Trou" and "Holy Cow" amongst others. With my talented obsessive compulsive artistic friends the N:A ART Collective is doing it for themselves.

"Artists... are doing it for themselves" Ode to Annie Lennox xxx and a Slice Of Me At The Boy's Club

2008-05-18T10:27:00.000-07:00

This could be a good thing! Cheers Earnest.. N:A ART is Born

2008-05-18T09:31:00.000-07:00

Art and a meeting of Mind vs Minds

If you thought Art had finally lost itself to the prescribed media of “Box, Tick, Funding.” well think again. Like the legend of the Concrete Poets of the 1960’s, Stroud now boasts a rising force, freeing itself from the formaldehyde arts factories of the Damien Hirst empire. Like Poet and Artist John Furnival of the afore-mentioned Concrete Poets, its a “Frog, Pond,Plop” of independent continuity, standing in stark contrast, to the current curricular idiom of compliance.

Who or what is this new found joy? It’s The NA ART Collective.

After meeting with their members, before the opening of their Premier Exhibition “A Slice of Me at The Boys Club” being held in conjunction with and part of the Stroud Valley Arts Site 08 event. I was given the opportunity to engage with their hidden artistic experiences and have been fortunate enough to see, at first hand, aspects of their exploration.

To be honest I found it a welcome relief to the normally dull trudging, of ego wading, I’m normally faced with.

My lasting impression:- NA ART are self reliant, non compliant, artists fighting for freedom of expression and creativity, against the backdrop of unprecedented conservatism in the arts. A Conservatism which has plagued the past decade with mediocrity, an effect of the prescribed modernity placed upon it, in the never ending fight for funding.

When asked questions relating to their media, and being served questions over what they aim to achieve. I am faced with the phrase “it’s easier not to, so why not”. It’s a common saying in our initial conversations. But I am welcomed wholeheartedly into their world and in spending time with them, I have been privileged to learn more of their diverse relationship with
each other and their media.

Paul Grellier engages with a didactic display of dualism in his structural forms. Unleashing, uncompromising conversations with gravity and flow in the condition of hindsight and foresight.

Imogen Harvey-Lewis and her illustrative conversations with subconscious communication and desire. Interweaving the fine line of balance, nuance and intrigue.

Rayner Grant, exposing his love of Leonardo Da Vinci, combining the inclusive left brain, right brain approach to thinking, communication and spontaneous creativity. Reaching into the sub consciousness of childhood’s juxtaposition with form and reality.

Gavin Palmer, who’s stark graphic images somehow capture and contain immense hidden warmth, often lost in the development of the digital media.

Micha Leese, exploring with eclectic, quirky and playful, illustrative designs. Toys with the imagination and allows the journey of a story to unfold through illustrative expressionism.

Adam Morrigan, who’s Socio-Environmental and Political art using Road Kill and other things, picking at the conscience of polite artistic society, with uncompromising and somehow, stunningly beautiful creations.

He says “apparently its all in the mix as if a Phoenix of deliberation has risen from the Ashes of the 21st century and the Saatchi fire, and about time, I was getting a bit bored”

In my last meeting with the NAART they laugh and and discuss the prophetic vision of Douglas Adams with his ultimate book Last Chance to See, co-written with Mark Carwardine warning of the extinction of the Yellow River Dolphin (too late) wild artists could be a thing of the past.

Earnest de la Warr: May 2008

A Slice of Me at The Boys Club Open 5th June untill the 18th June 2008
Daily 11-4 Weekend 10-6 Weekends
(Finale 7pm June 18th 2008

High Culture and a fall from grace

2008-05-13T14:31:00.000-07:00

Tate Modern et al and the unsolicited art of the contemporary

2008-04-17T11:27:00.000-07:00

Having just enjoyed wonderful public attention both nationally and internationally (check press for details) with my opening exhibition of Road Kill The Last Supper at Centerspace Bristol. I thought, buoyed as I am and truly believing in my work (as do quite a lot of others). Work which is created from my own sweat and tears with no other, added or hidden labour involved. The type of labour say, taking form in an art factory (the succubi of the art world), or associated by-product of such an institution. I prepared myself to ask how I might get a proposal into the Tate Modern ( et al ) constabulary in the proper manner.

So, set and jellied for the purpose, off I went with gusto, and after streaming the telephone number to Tate Modern enquiries with a bit of research on the web, I called and had the pleasure of a very brief but bright conversation with a young man. During the duration of the call, which was about 30 seconds, I was told "You need an agent."

Hmm I thought that's a bit odd, and obviously my miss-understanding of the art process complete. In my naivety I thought contemporary art had to be inspired, accomplished and capturing the zeitgeist of the moment, for the inspiration and imagination of future generations. Well it seems I think that I was wrong apparently I need an agent. 007 maybe he's licensed to Kill. Oh dear, just another Road Kill Moment!

The Will To Live: Art and the Zeitgeist

2008-04-13T14:52:00.000-07:00

Arty Zeitgeist: Its not what you say it's how you say it

Fergus Drennan at Road Kill The Last Supper

2008-04-13T14:19:00.000-07:00

ECO WARRIOR ( WE ARE WOMBLES )

The Show Begins and...

2008-04-02T01:47:00.000-07:00

Road Kill ( In The Belly Of The Beast )

Road Kill Invitation and Repose

Road Kill The Last Supper

2008-03-27T05:45:00.000-07:00

Road Kill The Last Supper has its say, from the 5 -17 April

Centrespace Gallery
6 Leonard Lane,
Bristol, BS1 1EA

http://www.centrespacegallery.com

Jiang Rong: The hour of the wolf and who's eating who?

2008-03-21T04:00:00.000-07:00

Anything which describes the stupidity inherent to ignoring environmental issues should be encouraged and Jaing Rong has written something special. Read it for yourself and just remember the fate of the Yellow River Dolphin, lest we forget. There is no excuse for turning a blind eye and if possible less of an excuse for not taking responsibility for our actions.

Road Kill The Last Supper opens the 5th of April at Centrespace, Bristol

Prema, It all starts with an idea ( Who is the road kill now? )

2008-03-04T14:15:00.000-08:00

One of the most beautiful experiences of hanging an exhibition is developing a closer relationship with each of the pieces. It is as if they themselves are regarding the spectacle of the artist facing their innermost reaches. Insecurities, hopes, aspirations and despairs they find voice in the reaction of the arena to the presence of each piece. And as part of this arena, the scrutiny of the public is the most exciting factor for without it the artist has no voice and no choice but to reflect on their own agenda, their journey. When people choose to view and engage and make their own decisions, that's when the magic happens.

Prema: and a few things on the way

2008-02-19T00:39:00.001-08:00

Currently I'm working on my Exhibitions for Prema Arts 23rd Feb to the 5th April.

You can contact Prema by ringing the Office on 01453 860703.

Our general email address is info@prema.demon.co.uk

Prema
South Street,
Uley
Gloucestershire
GL11 5SS

And: Sabre Arts in the much loved but flood effected Gloucester.

Sabre Art Studio-Gallery© THE GLOUCESTER GALLERY
Unit 32, Sabre Close, Quedgeley, Gloucester GL2 4NZ Tel:- 01452 397479

MARCH 6th – 23rd - ‘PRELUDE’ at Sabre Art Gallery

Open each Thursday – SUNDAY 10am – 5pm.
http://www.sabreart.co.uk/

Adam Morrigan: a bit about me!

2007-12-01T07:31:00.000-08:00

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.

JK Rawlings writes her prose on Velum parchment in The Tales of Beadle the Bard

2007-11-05T20:32:00.000-08:00

As an Artist, I applaud JK Rawlings production of her manuscripts 'The Tales of Beadle the Bard'. To me they are her conscious reflection of our need as people, to be responsible for our actions, and in this light be able to make a difference. The proceeds of her sales, going to charity for example. I also felt whilst reading The Harry Potter books to my children, Albus Dumbledore was and is, an excellent role model. Kind, intelligent, compassionate, far thinking, wise and I am sure he would have made his boyfriend/husband very happy.

However I need to clear something up. Radio 4 described Velum as paper in a interview with the author, which is wrong. I believe we are responsible for the materials we use, the impact this has on the environment, and the animals in our care.

Calligraphers are aware of the finesse necessary for their craft, and they are also aware of the materials needed for the finest of finishes. Velum is a prime parchment and the finest is produced from the tract of skin which follows the path of the spine, from the head to tail, of a new born, or in some cases still born calf. This product is referred to as slunk or slunk-skin and is not a paper, as Radio 4 would have us believe, but a prepared animal skin, or parchment. Here is the science bit. Paper is produced by the pulping of vegetable fibres comprised of cellulose, the primary structural component of green plants, not collagenous*, elastic and reticular fibres, formed from a cell layer, called the basal lamina and found in only one source - living or dead animals. Radio 4 found this distinction hard to bear and has referred to Velum as Paper which is incorrect.

It take less energy to produce parchment than paper and considering we incinerate a vast majority of hide produced in this country, and the current Global issues we face with climate change, it seems wise for us to review the way we use our resources. Trees lock in carbon, burning releases it, hides can be composted or eaten, you do the the math and ask the question which would be the better choice.

* ( Collagen, commonly used in cosmetic surgery is produced by boiling up cow or other hides. )

Self taught and the inner city Tales of Lawrence Hoo

2007-11-01T15:22:00.000-07:00

Centre-Space Gallery Bristol. Go and see it... Lawrence has in my view achieved a great work of understanding, challenging consensus opinion of those considered responsible for the abolition of the slave trade. Lawrence puts the real history of uprising and consistent struggle for freedom against tremendous and barbaric odds, firmly in the hands and minds of the people taken and forced into labour, for unscrupulous economic interest. It is this kind of Art action, that Lawrence has taken, which provides a positive, conscious and objective history, enriching my understanding of what can be considered as shameful period in our history, and the far from glorious British empire.

http://www.innercitytales.com/

Road Kill ( Messiah ) Hand made, and for sale: by appointment only...

2007-09-25T11:25:00.000-07:00

Roe Deer bark tanned leather, Olive oil, Linnen.

The Messiah came speaking clearly to the people, of a need to change perception, remember you are a part of every-thing.

Mappe Mundi: the ideal, and our cross cultural crisis...

2007-09-12T01:26:00.001-07:00

Road Kill ( Mappe Mundi )

Mallards, Copper, Linen, Pinewood, Sinew
Two Mallard ducklings one male, one female, sewn together.
Rawhide, passing light shows the detail. ( No detail is too small. )
A belief in manifest destiny has been responsible for many atrocities, and the ideal of denigrating one belief, or people, over another especially, has caused immense harm and disassociation from our intrinsic relationship with the natural world.
Historically, the Mappa Mundi, held in Hereford Cathedral, is an 11th century document used to prove a point - justifying the Christian belief system. It is my belief, its ideal, led directly to the crusades, the inquisition and other notable atrocities in the history of the Church, including the decimation of indigenous cultures and their belief systems.

Road Kill ( Mappe Mundi ) is a subsequent reflection of our current state of cross cultural crisis and points to our need to re-learn the importance of our natural wealth.

Road Kill Requiem (I walked out one Sunday morning).

2007-09-09T15:31:00.000-07:00

List of the dead, and ode to the dying.
One Badger, female.
One Fox, male.
One Roe Deer, male.
One Wood-Rat, female.
One Hedgehog, unknowable.
One Rabbit, unknowable.
6 killed in hit and run...
I walked out one sunday morning.
Road Kill Requiem.
Lest we forget.

Artists as the last makers in an Industrial Globalised Society

2007-09-07T00:55:00.000-07:00

Because of the intimate nature of my work, its content and beauty, the 'Prelude Exhibition' has brought many valuable experiences not only to myself, but also to those who came to take a look. Many people experienced positive emotional responses, being affected deeply by the intention of the pieces, and their ascetic. It has affirmed my intention to take these works out to the people because, I believe it helps us to experience our own sense of alienation from the means of production, and the real dangers we face because of this. Artists are indeed becoming the last makers. My own evolution from artisan to artist, is born of the understanding you can get it cheaper in China (I use China as an example of economically exploited economies in the current trend in Globalisation) and the real consequences of this. The resulting death of intimate connexions with the process of making, and expressing. A tragic example of the "You can get it cheaper in China" attitude to commerce, is that it has led directly to the extinction of the Yellow River Dolphin. A tragic loss for the Earth. The dolphin is not alone. The extinction of the Yellow River Dolphin has been attributed to western need for cheap goods by the Chinese government.

No doubt many question my motivation, but it is very simple. We have an obligation to grow up and take responsibility for our activities. Losing face is meaningless, for we borrow the Earth from our children. John Berger in his book, Ways of Seeing, page 1. states "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it can speak." But I know we can take this much further, for before we can speak, or hear, or see, we can touch.

Why is my work so expensive? I want to make a difference and once considered my self as valueless. I do not anymore and believe in the integrity and value of each individual piece, its messege, and poignancy to our age.

I want to exhibit my work.

Why I'm not like Damien Hurst.

2007-09-02T00:49:00.000-07:00

Factory processes in Art as in all other arena’s of life are crippling because they are intrinsically and notoriously deskilling:
Henry Ford’s famous quote being a fine example, “You can have any colour as long as it’s black.”

I believe classical artists such as Leonardo da Vinci believed in apprentices as a form of skilled specialisation, as a route to becoming a “Master” in a chosen field, as many of the Guild systems.

I think we are maybe missing the point of an apprenticeship, a term I have heard used in association with particular practises in art at present. Then again I am also aware that many, though not all, actively and effectively employ nepotism as a means of furthering their career. In this singular light, maybe we are all guilty by association.

We live in an Globalised Industrial age... why shouldn’t we? Good question. We have, as I have suggested earlier, made a bit of a mess of things, and as such we have a choice. There are other more intimate methods of preservation and production, older, and what is more cleaner, enriching, sustainable and far more importantly enskilling. So that the means of production are very much in the hands, eyes and hearts of the reskilled.

"The highest reward for man's ( or Woman's ) toil is not what he ( She ) gets for it, but what he ( She ) becomes by it." John Ruskin English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900)

John Ruskin explored this and his work considers itself as a devotion to nature through observation. Ruskin as many other of his contemporaries believed the division of labor as the main cause of the unhappiness of the poor and he discussed this in his book Unto This Last; published 1862, taken from his original essays for the Cornhill Magazine published 1860.

I would take this a step further and say that it is also a cause of unhapiness in the wealthy or rich because they to are also alienated from the means of production, often turning to alternative methods to ease their bordom. It either leads to rehab, the gutter or clutter.

We have a choice.

Aleination it's a bit of a problem.

Oh and by the way I like what he does but thats not to say that I understand it fully because I've not had the opportunity of a good chat.

Prelude

2007-09-01T12:03:00.000-07:00

All these pieces contain naturally processed forms which without exception bare in mind the simple premise of working with respect. The processes I use are indigenous in origin and therefore proven to be environmentally benign. However they are not entered into lightly and my understanding comes from the knowledge of what it costs to ‘produce’. All hides I have used are a product of human consumption and demand, be it from road traffic accidents or the meat and dairy industry.
My premiss is that all synthetic and processed materials have a relative cost and we as adults make conscious decisions regarding the materials we use. Often these decisions are made without a true ‘full’ understanding and therefore, due to this fundamental flaw, without our true consent.
I entered into making these pieces to highlight the plight of many of the animals under our care and stewardship and believe we have a duty of care to protect and sustain the natural spaces still remaining, before we ruin them by exhausting them completely.
The real truth: “It is easy to turn a blind eye.”

My goal is to highlight our need as a people to remember that we are but one aspect of the planet.
This is seemingly very difficult for all of us to hear. The reality is that we need to wake up and to take responsibility for our lives.

The simple truth: one planet, one people.

We have the choice to avoid the Richard Fleischer 70’s film classic ‘Soylent Green’ becoming our reality. Put simply the film predicts a break down in society due to a neglect of the environment.
In truth, we live in a vibrant multi cultural society which should be applauded. We too are part of the ecosystem. Variety should be celebrated because, believe it or not whether man or beast, beneath the skin we are all red.
Protection, conservation and education are essential to enable us to understand how we can re-learn to live in a better way, because it seems that at the present moment, we are making a bit of a mess of things.