‘Animula’ translates as ‘little soul’ and represents amorphous forms seemingly in a bio transformation and without categorisation.

This particular 'Animula' is incredibly rare in that it is carved from the now disused English alabaster seam that was used to re-inter King Richard III after his remains were discovered in a car park in Leicester in 2012. Chosen for it's unique tones, no other material is available from this seam making this incredibly rare stone. The carving was created as part of Morgan's ACME Studio Prize on behalf of the Adrian Caruthers prize awarded at The Slade school of fine art in 2022/23.

Reclaimed Alabaster - Carving only

60 x 27 x 35 cm

2024

£12,000

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Metal framework is sold separately. Options for mounting available, please enquire.

By turning raw materials like alabaster into evocative, animate forms, Morgan echoes a belief in the profound connection between the natural world and human creativity. Her generative carving practice began at the coinciding birth of her first child and the loss of her late father, drawing on the complexities of personal and collective identities; the work addresses the precarity of self and agency within the natural world as a mother, highlighting transformative states of being and art as a liberating force.