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'The Morrigan' was my first Installation and I completed it during my first year as a Masters student at Auckland University of Technology in 2000. As you can see I was heavilly influenced by a bookmaking workshop that was part of the first year Masters course.

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(above) This view shows the overall look of the Installation, you will immediately notice that the hanging 'ladders' of prints all face into the centre of the work. The four hand made books on the table comprised of bound sets of coloured monoprints and the ladders were constructed of the second pull from each print, in this way I collected the his/herstory of the making of each of the prints in the books. The ladders came to represent the very personal issues and processes that I was dealing with while making this work, while the books were the image I presented to the outside world.

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'The Morrigan' was a very important work for me because my art became free of the constraints of a two dimentional surface and occupied three dimentional space. It was a very public expression of a psychological metamophosis that I was undergoing at the time.

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This work is heavily influenced by the music of Kate Bush, in particular her albums The Red Shoes and The Sensual World. The front page to one of the books of prints has a quote from one of her songs, for this I am grateful.

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'The Morrigan' (consisting 4 hand-made books of original prints and 4 'ladders' of original prints in hand-bound boxes) is available for purchase as a set. NZ$8000.00
Please contact me at ruth.s@paradise.net.nz if you are interested in adding them to your collection.