Morgan Stokes

Morgan Stokes’ series, 'Where The Body Ends', reimagines the interplay of craft, material, and experience. This body of work is both a homage and a critique – a meditation on the tactility and cultural weight of the materials that shape objects and lives.

The works in Where 'The Body Ends' are formal studies in materiality, bridging the traditional components of painting – stretcher bars, cloth, and paint – with remnants of salvaged leather and suede. This fusion of artistic and artisanal materials interrogates notions of value and obsolescence, highlighting the liminal space between utility and aesthetics. The leather and suede, imbued with histories of labour and durability, are transformed into surfaces that are at once subdued and bold, rational and irrational, spontaneous and considered, their textures and tones pushing the viewer into an encounter with the unexpected.