Michael Morgan
Impermanent vessels - rebirth
Michael Morgan’s ‘Impermanent Vessels - Rebirth’ is featured here as the earliest practice and exhibition (2013-2014) forming the emergent trajectory of Creative Occupation.
9-25 May 2014, Deakin University Geelong Waterfront Campus, Victoria, Australia. An installation in space including sculpture, digital photo images, video, and sound.
An exhibition of a twenty-month project which considers the transient and evolutionary nature of all aspects of life. In late 2012, fifty copies of the artist’s head produced in raku clay, significant through its use in Japanese tea ceremony, were placed in five locations in Corio Bay and Port Phillip Bay. Created from earth material, and fired, they continued to develop in ocean space. Through time, change happened to vessels as they integrated in the underwater world. The vessels were subject to nature’s forces that added to them, degraded them and even caused their loss.
Artist: Michael Morgan | curating, catalogue: Marita Batna | exhibition address: Dr Felicity Spear.
The exhibition was developed as part of Geelong After Dark & Mountain to Mouth (M~M 2014), with support from Diversitat and City of Greater Geelong