Gestures

October 2024, Church of St. John, Healey, Northumberland

In her 2024 exhibition GESTURES, Newcastle-based artist Rosie Morris explores experiences of care in relation to the body as a site of touch and shelter, through the lens of ‘daughtering’. This concept investigates the circular relationship between parent and child and how the threads of intergenerational care become entangled with one another. Taking the form of soft sculptures and prints onto aluminium, Morris’s works have a tenderness and familiarity that convey a sense of gentle nostalgia, and speak to the yearning, grasping feeling of fading memories; a fragile thing you want to hold onto.

- extract from My body was their first home, text by Roxanna Watson

GESTURES, Installation view

Gently by the wrist, 2024, direct print on brushed aluminium, 25.5 x 20cm, 1/1

Tucking you up in bed and how small you looked looking up at me, 2023, organic cotton, organic brushed cotton, beetroot dye, waste fabric stuffing, 7.5 x 20 x 7.5cm (HxWxD)

Grasped, 2024, direct print on brushed aluminium, 22.5 x 15cm, 1/1

Knotted, 2024, organic brushed cotton dyed with red cabbage and Black-eyed Susan ,velvet skirt, 5 x 25 x 25cm

Here if you need me, 2024, direct print on brushed aluminium, 21.2 x 27cm, 1/1

Kitchen table den, 2024, organic brushed cotton dyed with onion skin, onion skin and iron, and avocado stones, balsa wood, dowel and human hair, 18 x 24 x 24cm HxWxD

Halo, 2024, pigment print on aluminium, 10 x 15cm, limited edition of 20, produced with hardcopy* in bespoke box. A text, titled My body was their first home by Roxanna Watson accompanies the edition

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Betwixt (swan), 2024, direct print on brushed aluminium, 27 x 21.2cm, 1/1

Wad, 2024, direct print on brushed aluminium, 15 x 10cm, 1/1

Shell, 2024, direct print on brushed aluminium, 15 x 10cm, 1/1

Crawl space, canopy and weighted wing, 2023, balsa wood, bamboo silk dyed with Black Eyed Susan, organic cotton dyed with onion skin and avocado stones, 12 x 20 x 7.5cm (HxWxD)

Wrung, 2024, direct print on brushed aluminium, 27 x 21.2cm, 1/1

Womb-tomb, 2023, organic plain cotton, waste fabric stuffing, 10 x 10 x 16cm (HxWxD)

Cradled softly (palm), 2024, direct print on brushed aluminium, 25.5 x 17.5cm, 1/1