Mark Corfield-Moore

Mark Corfield-Moore is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice holds woven textiles at its core. Corfield-Moore likens the process of weaving to his own thought patterns, with each work bringing together ideas and images from disparate times and places. The conception of fabrics as nomadic objects is fundamental to his work. Historically, textiles have been produced for rugs, tents and wall-hangings, amongst other uses, items that are portable and attached to no specific location. These ideas draw, in part, on the artist's own mixed Thai and British heritage, an identity he has consciously reflected in a number of weaving techniques. Corfield-Moore learned ikat in Northern Thailand where his maternal grandmother practiced as a weaver. He has also spent time in Scotland learning about tartan production.
The artist's recent works are his most autobiographical to date. Corfield-Moore was prompted to look introspectively to his own past at a time when the future seems so uncertain. These new weavings are the result of fresh experimentation with painting off the loom, a technique that incorporates a greater element of chance to create a more distinctive ikat blur. This distortion reflects on the nature of memory and our evolving relationship with the past.

Mark Corfield-Moore (b. 1988) was born in Bangkok and lives and works in Hastings. Previous solo exhibitions include We Speak Chicken, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway (2024); We Speak Chicken, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2024); Volt, Eastbourne, UK (2023); Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022); Cob Gallery, London, UK (2021); and Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK (2018). Selected group exhibitions include Spazio Musa, Turin, Italy (2023); Galerie Slika, Lyon, France (2023); Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2022), Swedish Institute, Paris, France (2022), Turner House, Cardiff, UK (2021), Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich, Germany (2021), Platform Southwark, London, UK (2021); New Art Centre, Salisbury (2020), Plain Gallery, Milan, Italy (2020), Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2020).

© Mark Corfield-Moore. Photo: Soliloquy (Images Doc).