‘What is Home?’ 
A Solo Exhibition by Jilly Morris
30 November 2024 – 31 January 2025
Everyday, 10.00 am. – 06.00 pm.
At Little ShelterBox, Chiang Mai
208/25 Lamphun road, Wat Ket, Amphur Mueang, Chiang Mai
Opening: Saturday 30 November 2024, 6 pm.
Nomadic artist questions what is home?
Little Shelter Box Gallery is proud to invite you to the public launch of Jilly Morris’s new solo exhibition, ‘What is Home?’ at Little Shelter Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand from 6:00 pm on 30th November 2024
After spending six years on the road, contemporary visual artist, Jilly Morris, questions ‘What is Home?’ This solo exhibition features a body of work that collates a series of experiential responses, emotions, questions, and ever-changing landscapes. Jilly Morris poses questions through a dialogue of drawing, mark-making, photography, stitch, and print. Her work explores the transitional journey, the uncertainty of belonging, and the complex emotions tied to leaving one place and the temporariness of integrating into another.
The idea of home can encompass many overlapping and sometimes contradictory sensations. Homes can simultaneously be places of belonging, permanency, fragility, refuge, joy, and trauma. In today’s wider context of societal flux, politics, conflict, and climate change, home has become an ever-shifting concept. Jilly Morris questions the fragility of what home means to her as a person, who, through choice, left her country of origin.
“After living out of a suitcase for several years, home began to morph into feeling, rather than the physicality of walls, structures and belongings. Home has become a transitory experience. As the fluidity of travel began to strip away my preconceptions of what home was, I increasingly began to question what home actually meant to me. Using my own visual language, I began to explore these inquiries through my creative practice.” Jilly
‘What is Home?’ uses a ‘blind drawing’ technique, in which lines are drawn on the reverse side of paper, and thus cannot be seen until the paper is turned around to reveal the marks made. The process of blind drawing creates a looseness, an unpredictability, and chance quality. Morris links this freedom of process with a guiding set of rules; such as, drawings being contained (and constrained) into a deliberate reference to architectural practice — the floor plan. The parameters she sets, become her new boundaries, her new geographies, her new homes, in which there is an overwhelming juxtaposition of liberation and constraint. She is also interested in materiality, and what materials can symbolise. In this exhibition, Jilly Morris has used old, donated bed sheets in a series of fabric wall hangings, alongside found objects, drawing, photography, and stitch.
Jilly Morris is an interdisciplinary, contemporary visual artist – who produces work that is response-led, particularly to place or process. Her work is varied, and incorporates drawing, ephemeral sculpture, installation, photography, video and sound. She has exhibited widely throughout the UK and Europe, and has completed 8 artist residencies worldwide. ‘What is Home?’ came to fruition in 2023, when Jilly was the artist in residence at Prem Tinsulanonda International School in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This is her first exhibition in South East Asia.
” At the heart of this body of work lies the exploration of transition, encompassing themes of unpredictability, familiarity and impermanence. Guided by response and repetition, she captures the complexities of selfhood, the transformative power of external events and rituals that unconsciously play a part in shaping our sense of place. Through her artistic practice, Jilly Morris invites us to contemplate the multifaceted nature of home, the significance of transitions, and the profound impact that environment has on the human experience. These works resonate with deep insights into the nature of ‘place’, inspiring reflection and encouraging viewers to explore their own connection to their day to day surroundings and the ever-changing narratives and stimuli that shape our lives and our sense of who we are.” Alex Soulsby. FRSA Creative Director at Prem Tinsulanonda International School
For more information, please contact:
FB: Little Shelter Hotel Chiangmai, Tel: 093-172-7700
Or
TQPR Thailand, Nuie Titichayapon, nuie@tqpr.com