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Sharon Morris Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
Background statement of research
Trained originally in painting and photography at the Slade my work, even as a student included text. This developed into an interest in poetry and various forms of art that include the word - the artist's book, film, photography and video installation, and live performance with projection. After completing an MA in psychoanalytic theory at Middlesex University I then wrote a PhD thesis under the direction of psychoanalyst Bernard Burgoyne, who supervised my PhD at the Slade School of Fine Art, on the relation between words and images in the act of self-reference, comparing the various forms of self-reference in the writings of H.D. with the images and texts by the surrealist Claude Cahun. My Post-doctoral research has continued to address the question of the precise status of the word-image complex using the semiotics of C.S. Peirce.
At present
I am learning stone lithography, combining traditional analogue processes with digital text. In October 2009 I will take up a one-month residential fellowship for creative writers at Hawthornden Castle, International Retreat for Writers, outside Edinburgh, where I will work on my second collection of poetry.
Recent publications
For The Oak performance of text and projection by Sharon Morris with live cello music by Anton Lukoszevieze, Crazy Wisdom, King's Place, London, March, 2009.
After the Songs of Solomon: a sequence of poems, an invitation to respond to Judy
Chicago's prints Voices from the Song of Songs for the Cambridge Festival of Ideas in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, New Hall, Cambridge, 19. October - 14 November 2008. Published in The Long Poem Magazine, forthcoming, July, 2009.
False Spring (London: Enitharmon Press, 2007) a collection of poems 2001-2005.
Peirce: re-staging the sign in the work of art', Semiotica, Mounton de Gruyter, Berlin/New York. Ed. Martin Lefebvre, special issue on Peirce, forthcoming, 2009.
'Image, Imagism, and the Work of Art', (trans into German) Bilder BeSchreiben, ed. Winfried Nöth (Kassel University Press, forthcoming, 2009).
Links
sharon.morris@ucl.ac.uk
http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/sharonmorrispage.html
http://home.freeuk.com/katermurr/sharon-morris-three-poems.htm
http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/poetry/poemoftheweek/horses/
http://www.waterlog.fvu.co.uk/simonpope/painting06_sharon.html
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=1893e
http://poetrytrend.blogspot.com/search/label/084%20-%20Sharon%20Morris%20-%20HEADLANDS
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