R&F Mo, Dream of Ship Passing and Growing a Beard, 2024
Watercolour and gouache on cardboard, 29 × 37cm
R&F Mo’s multi-faceted practice explores connections between the seen, the sensed and the dreamed. Playful and otherworldly, her paintings, works on paper, and theatrical enactments often feature ‘the Woanderer’, a unique, horse-headed creature that navigates imaginary landscapes whilst exploring the notion of identity.
Performance is a constant thread that weaves through Mo’s practice whether the work is studio-based or presented through a character acting in costume. Fantastical figures and beasts inhabit the artist’s vibrant worlds, telling stories that– in Mo’s words - ‘reference alternative beings and multiple dimensions, allowing the unconscious to come into play’.
This unique unframed work is part of our ‘A Day at the Seaside’ online collection and exhibition. Typically vibrant and surreal, it was inspired by a trip to the Arctic made by the artist in the 1980’s. She says: ‘ I had never experienced such strange conditions; 24hr daylight - like a constant summer afternoon - with crisp, dry clear air, few buildings or roads to judge distance or scale, and a lack of sleep, from no dark night-times. My years of observational drawing and the visual sense I had learned were upended - I was seeing completely new’.
Mo studied at City and Guilds, London, graduating in 1980, followed by the Royal College of Art, London, graduating in 1984. An MFA and PhD followed at Central St. Martin’s, London (2004) and University of the Arts, London (2011) respectively. Mo co-authored Performance Drawing (Bloomsbury 2020) and took part in the Performance Drawing 2021 residency at The Centre for Recent Drawing, London. Works have recently been exhibited in A History of Drawing, Camberwell Space (2018), the TBW Drawing prize 2020, and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Oliver Project has been proud to launch several new limited edition prints by the artist at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair since 2021. Mo lives and works in south east London.
Watercolour and gouache on cardboard, 29 × 37cm
R&F Mo’s multi-faceted practice explores connections between the seen, the sensed and the dreamed. Playful and otherworldly, her paintings, works on paper, and theatrical enactments often feature ‘the Woanderer’, a unique, horse-headed creature that navigates imaginary landscapes whilst exploring the notion of identity.
Performance is a constant thread that weaves through Mo’s practice whether the work is studio-based or presented through a character acting in costume. Fantastical figures and beasts inhabit the artist’s vibrant worlds, telling stories that– in Mo’s words - ‘reference alternative beings and multiple dimensions, allowing the unconscious to come into play’.
This unique unframed work is part of our ‘A Day at the Seaside’ online collection and exhibition. Typically vibrant and surreal, it was inspired by a trip to the Arctic made by the artist in the 1980’s. She says: ‘ I had never experienced such strange conditions; 24hr daylight - like a constant summer afternoon - with crisp, dry clear air, few buildings or roads to judge distance or scale, and a lack of sleep, from no dark night-times. My years of observational drawing and the visual sense I had learned were upended - I was seeing completely new’.
Mo studied at City and Guilds, London, graduating in 1980, followed by the Royal College of Art, London, graduating in 1984. An MFA and PhD followed at Central St. Martin’s, London (2004) and University of the Arts, London (2011) respectively. Mo co-authored Performance Drawing (Bloomsbury 2020) and took part in the Performance Drawing 2021 residency at The Centre for Recent Drawing, London. Works have recently been exhibited in A History of Drawing, Camberwell Space (2018), the TBW Drawing prize 2020, and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Oliver Project has been proud to launch several new limited edition prints by the artist at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair since 2021. Mo lives and works in south east London.
Watercolour and gouache on cardboard, 29 × 37cm
R&F Mo’s multi-faceted practice explores connections between the seen, the sensed and the dreamed. Playful and otherworldly, her paintings, works on paper, and theatrical enactments often feature ‘the Woanderer’, a unique, horse-headed creature that navigates imaginary landscapes whilst exploring the notion of identity.
Performance is a constant thread that weaves through Mo’s practice whether the work is studio-based or presented through a character acting in costume. Fantastical figures and beasts inhabit the artist’s vibrant worlds, telling stories that– in Mo’s words - ‘reference alternative beings and multiple dimensions, allowing the unconscious to come into play’.
This unique unframed work is part of our ‘A Day at the Seaside’ online collection and exhibition. Typically vibrant and surreal, it was inspired by a trip to the Arctic made by the artist in the 1980’s. She says: ‘ I had never experienced such strange conditions; 24hr daylight - like a constant summer afternoon - with crisp, dry clear air, few buildings or roads to judge distance or scale, and a lack of sleep, from no dark night-times. My years of observational drawing and the visual sense I had learned were upended - I was seeing completely new’.
Mo studied at City and Guilds, London, graduating in 1980, followed by the Royal College of Art, London, graduating in 1984. An MFA and PhD followed at Central St. Martin’s, London (2004) and University of the Arts, London (2011) respectively. Mo co-authored Performance Drawing (Bloomsbury 2020) and took part in the Performance Drawing 2021 residency at The Centre for Recent Drawing, London. Works have recently been exhibited in A History of Drawing, Camberwell Space (2018), the TBW Drawing prize 2020, and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Oliver Project has been proud to launch several new limited edition prints by the artist at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair since 2021. Mo lives and works in south east London.
