Triennial 2008   Artists   Heather and Ivan Morison

Title: Tales of Space and Time
Location: This is a mobile work

Attracted by Folkestone’s connection with H.G. Wells, the Morisons have constructed a mobile Science Fiction library in the style of a 1970s Californian House Truck.
Made popular in America during the Hippy movement, these house trucks, similar to Gypsy caravans, are a symbol of freedom and a nomadic self-sufficient lifestyle. Following this tradition the Morison’s version is hand built using Douglas fir from their arboretum in Wales onto a 1955 Green Goddess, ex army fire engine.

Inside, the truck houses hundreds of Science Fiction classics as well as soft sci-fi furnishings. It is staffed by a local Science Fiction enthusiast.
A series of related talks will be held throughout the summer. The house truck will be a base for a discursive forum where alternate possibilities, time and space can be speculated.

Heather Morison, U.K, 1973. Ivan Morison U.K, 1974. Both live and work in Wales.

The Morison’s work varies from performance, video, photos, text and audio pieces, to a garden and an arboretum; all modest documentations of naturally occurring man-made phenomena, real and unreal.

Recent solo shows include

Bloomberg Space – London 2007

Earthwalker, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art – London 2006

Camden Arts Centre Tree Tour, Camden Arts Centre – London 2006

Starmaker, Charles H Scott Gallery – Vancouver 2005

Chinese Arboretum, Q Arts – Derby 2005

Heather & Ivan Morison do not understand it, IPS – Birmingham 2004

Recent group exhibitions include

Zoorama, part of Thin Cities, Piccadilly Line, Platform for Art – London
2007

British Art Show 6, Manchester – Nottingham and Bristol 2006

Human Nature, Pump House – Battersea, London 2005

The Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London, 2005

The Morisons completed their first Science Fiction novel The Divine Vessel in 2003 and created a bedding scheme for the City of Westminster in spring 2004. The Morisons represented Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007.

See Heather and Ivan Morison’s work
www.morison.info