SWERVE PROJECT SPACE is pleased to present works-in-progress by Ulysse Massey and Christopher Colm Morrin, artists-in-residence at CARRAIG-NA-GCAT, the Albers Foundation residency in Glandore, West Cork.
ULYSSE MASSEY
Ulysse Massey is a French artist who works with observation and collected residuals.
His weavings, sculptures and drawings take inspiration in his passion for the underwater world; connecting geological time scales during which the seas build grounds with the most recent layers of life.
He shapes materials to pay homage to their origins and characteristics, avoiding any kind of symbolism and emphasizing processes instead of finalities. This also shows in the techniques he uses; crochet, threading or weaving work in cycles that help to persevere.
CHRISTOPHER COLM MORRIN
Christopher Colm Morrin is an Irish artist from Dublin, currently living in Berlin. Morrin has a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy and a major in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
Morrin makes enigmatic and philosophical pieces of art across various media, including painting, drawing, poetry, and music composition. His work embraces the often hidden, underlying patterns of life and shifting nature of reality, states like mutability, impermanence and ambiguity. Initially trained in psychology, philosophy, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, his work has been driven by a deep, serious, and irreverent questioning of reality in an attempt to get to grips with what is going on at any time.
Abstract and small in scale, Morrin's paintings often use elemental shapes and raw saturated colours. His work has been praised for its careful and sensitive understanding of composition and the ways in which forms and colours relate to one another in different arrangements and styles. All his work is united by an open, loose and untethered exploration of what painting is and what it can do. Morrin is motivated by painting’s rich expanse rather than its categories.
In 2024, Morrin was awarded the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation artist-in-residence program, Carraig-na-gCat.
Recent solo exhibitions include ‘notes’ at Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp (2024) and ‘Witnessing Change’ and Galerie Mutter Fourage, Berlin (2023).
Christopher Colm Morrin is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde.