Events
Jane Rendell & Sharon MorrisKeeper
10 May - 10 May 2013
6 – 8 pm Friday 10 May 2013
Jane Rendell and poet and artist Sharon Morris will read from their work on childhood, language and translation.
Sharon Morris is an artist and poet who trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, where she is currently head of the doctoral programme researching the relation between words and images using psychoanalytic theory and the semiotics of C.S. Peirce. Her creative works give a subjective voice to themes of place, its geology, history and ecology. Her artworks include installation, film, video and live performance with projection. Recently she made a performance and film-poem for the exhibition Film in Space, Camden Arts Centre, 2013. False Spring, Enitharmon, 2007, her first collection of poems, was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Jerwood Prize and Gospel Oak, her second collection has just been published by Enitharmon Press, 2013.
References/websites
https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=SMMOR81
http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/sharonmorrispage.html
Sharon will read from her current writing in progress set in Pembrokeshire, where she was born, and present an earlier audio work (first shown at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff) that deals with the transition from the Welsh to English language.
Jane will read from ‘Coming to Welsh’ (2013), a new work created for Keeper.
