Paintings for Propagate Way
A decade's worth of Môrafon's social campaign paintings was unveiled in a collective show in Bristol curated by the artist. Cinematic canvas stories, inspired by Jeff Wall's vast lightbox photographs, revealed human fragility and tenacity. They recalled a sense of mortality provoked by people's day-to-day road crossings of an inner city Bristol motorway, the M32. The pictures tell of hinterlands; spaces between destination and home, park and river, fence and foundation. The characters depicted, challenge old landscapes littered with the verge and vestige of 1960's brutalism. They traverse forgotten and abandoned shapes, navigating concrete blockades, cast into the land. New generations, decades on, live and grow between the gullies and seams of this megalith motorway monument. The show exhibited at The Island Bristol was curated to catalyse change. It included new and archive works from artists Gina Briganti, Hannah Cox, Ted Clarke, Annie Lovejoy and Eleanor Shipman and received Local press coverage. The paintings form part of the M32 Propagate Way campaign, to create green bridge connections for communities on either side of Bristol's gateway to the city. |