[LAUIL601] Visiting Lecturer: Catrin Morgan

• Mathematical, architectural, illustration. MA and PhD.
• Constraint. How became important to my work.
• Book with murder studies. Non-fiction. Passport with murder stories hidden within passport. Butterfly identification sheet and ordnance survey.
• Met with the French thinkers who thought mathematically
• Life users manual
• Using maths to underpin illustration. Enjoys diagrammatic illustration, scientific structures and systems.
• Integrating the systems of the French thinkers and expanding system of maths and systems to generate creativity. 
• In Our Times podcasts to look at an idea and brief introduction
• Prime numbers. Started to produce imagery, create artworks to generate with prime numbers. Aerial view of the kitchen diagram. One, five, 11, 17. Prime number of elements in the composition.
• A prime number is something that is divisible by one and itself. 2 x 3 are the building blocks of making six which isn't a prime number two and three are. This fascinated me!
• Prime numbers can be found in nature. Primary Cicada emerges every seven years to avoid their predators.
• Anti-symmetry. Wonky, growing composition.
• Primes can keep going on forever, as can I work. It can go on beyond my lifetime.
• Ilipeaun texts. 
• Floor plans @ Bletchley Park. Listening to morse code. Modern computing is inspired by what happened at Bletchley.
• I've worked with a programmer to generate artwork of the floorplans into a book. Constraints into an algorithm.
• Experiential growth.
• Recombination numbers go back very fast. Systems in generating work. Morse code experiments.
• Style – exercises in style. Book. Re-writes it as a sonnet. Haiku. 
• Authenticity in documenting artwork. Truthfulness. Rewrote our conversation using different constraints. Entirely fictionalised version of the conversation.
• The second version used fictional characters as if they were real people. Outtakes are versions. Fill in the holes from memory.
• The final version was the truth.
• Creating a typeface. Based on memories. Disintegrating. This went from legible, somewhat legible to not legible fonts at all.
• Making exercises in style. Stylistic choice changing context and content.
• Final project – less obvious constraints. Cassiopeia. Collective of artists. Collection of crowd funded events and printed matter. Publications.
• How to design printed matter? I was stumped. I looked to the National Gallery at Saint Jerome.
• Support structures. Architecture in spaces of care. Books can be spaces of care.
• Isomorphic project using 45° angle to be painted in paired black renderings. 3-D prints.
• Exhibition furniture. Generating designs. Built them for exhibitions. Structures create book face structures. We have different outputs but with coherency.
• I now live and work in New York as I loved it.
• I made a dummy book to submit to the women's studio workshop. Ceramics book arts. Apply for residency. The dummies changed and developed. 12 weeks to produce 50 bucks. Book aunts residency. Intense but amazing.
• Final book I made. Archival. Production is constraint. Ran into many problems in production. And bound. Elements of central room. In a striation functioning as critical thinking. Deconstructions and reconstructions syndrome and diagrams of spaces. Screenprinted.
• Dust and bodies in space. Inversions and negative space. Images and words combined. Recreate and re-combined.
• Collaborated. Collaboration.
• Populated with humans. Saint Jerome in an office space with deranged thoughts. Print run of 100 (even though 50 were needed) because there will be mistakes.
• I want my mathematics. Truly a constraint when recreating copies due to human error.
• Book as an object as well as a container for information.. I'll print some mistakes. Remade these error images. All have errors in the heart.
• Jerome study. Every time the exchanged, a new dialogue box appeared in the work.
• A book that wraps around itself. W book – two pamphlets with inside and outside spaces.
• Inside and outside spaces – living in a caravan inspired this. Nature of making intrusions. Jerome caravan mash-ups.
• More recent work on constraints.
• The end of the Ilipeau (french thinkers). Talks about how male and white they are, objectifying women. Lack of female members.
• Being a woman is in and of its self a constraint
• The fight that some people have to show their work.
• Women constraining that eating and using diets – very mathematical.
• Rule making has been part of my practice. My anxiety to cope. Positive and negative aspects.
• More broadly I'm interested in the constraints that we choose and the constraints that are already set for us.
• Women constraining himself through calorie counting. Doesn't interest the Ilipieau is it seen as a woman's thing.
• Art Poetry – creative writing graphic design Mashup. Constraints within that.
• Long projects. Generates its own momentum. Presidencies. Publications. Things I found 20 years ago now, are things that are still important to me today.
• I like to use constraints in my work through tools using different software is and different papers.
• Art therapy classes at the school. Exercises.
• Open mode drawing as structure. 
• I can foster these exercises too!

Reflection of today's visiting lecturer: 

I really enjoyed listening to Catrin talk today and really found her very inspiring. She has a very strong work ethic, with a very academic and mathematical angle underpinning her practice. While our systems and methods of generating work are different, I identify with her need to keep going with a long time spanning project overarching her practice as I have found that the more I investigate art therapy, the more I want to find out and keep at it - long after this module is done.

She mentioned something very interesting about there being art therapy classes at the school she works at and I would like to send her some questions via email about this to find out if art therapy has helped her own self and her own practice, and to find out what the art therapy classes entail. This could be very useful for my research!