Archive of work by graduates from the renowned MFA Programme at GSA

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digital photograph
100cm x124 cm
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digital photograph
100cmx124cm
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digital photograph
100cmx124cm
toast 1
digital photograph
75cmx50cm
Coleoidea Myopsina Loginindae
Digital Photographs
100cm x 125cm
2011
vaccus domus
Digital Photographs, Lightboxes (wood, fluorescent lighting, glass, perspex)
89cm x 89cm
2011

Marlena Morris

Marlena Morris was born and raised in Oakland, California and re-located to Glasgow to attend The Glasgow School of Art MFA program in 2009. Primarily a photographer, her work involves questioning our everyday surroundings and the absurdity and creepiness lurking just under the surface of a carefully cultivated façade. These photos could be of literally anything, linked thematically and aesthetically by a specific visual style. Recently, Morris has embarked on a long-term project investigating Cephalopods; it began with an interest in the absurdity of everyday domestic practices and has evolved from there into an investigation into qualities of utter alien-ness. This involves placing them in familiar domestic environments but obscuring the spaces so that the main focus is on the fascinating grotesqueness of the Cephalopods.