Je Suis...............
EMMAÜS Neuilly sur Marne

Just back from an extrordinary journey of Stockport, North Wales and Margate for new project "Shadow Girl". haunting and transforming.
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Shadow Girl

Jayne Morley traces the footsteps of her childhood dreams focusing on the places she lived and visited family. Stockport, Manchester, North wales and Margate, a nostalgic loop of forgotten memories emerging with the aid of a found mannequin. Entering previous homes, schools and dreamt of places, Jayne attempts to restore her life which spiritually ceased in 1977 with the suicide of her father. She endeavours to bring sense to the magnitude of this event on her life in her desire to lay the shadows, that have shaped her life, to rest. Like a magnet she travelled these parts of England and Wales “putting herself back together again.” Entering these old homes reassured Jayne that she had not left her shadows there, that she carried herself with her and that the red bricked buildings of Stockport were just that. Serendipidous apparitions and the real life appearances of her daughter Florence and her partner provided links to her present creating a safe perameter to focus on this dream-like state.

The mannequin Jayne reveals a world where everything was bigger and Jayne, the photographer, discovers, through the placing of ‘herself’, that Jayne, the girl, was always looking on.  Shadow Girl is a memoir of a woman who for many years found it difficult to be on this earth, casting shadows around her and remaining in these shadows for a great part of her life.

Je Suis Magnifique

Preparing for Je Suis Magnifique, at EMMAUS neuilly sur Marne. An amazing project i have been working on for the last few months:

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Jayne Morley, artiste, has been a regular face at EMMAUS, Neuilly Plaisance et Nuilly-sur Marne for the last few months and has recently been working with the Companions on her devised project Je Suis Là ou Je suis Magnifique, an exploration of self- identity, loss, belonging and hope,  common themes in Morley’s work made real by the stories of the people portrayed here. It has been a journey of focus, revelation, exploration and introspection. Working with charcoal, pastel, clay, words and the camera Morley has created, with the companions, a valuable piece of documentary that  is revealing, poignant and full of dignity.

“Jayne Morley’s work is transformative; she creates miniature miracles which abound in richly sensual colours and playful, ever‐surprising forms where an alchemy takes place. Her work is shot through with intuition and intelligence, and she is endowed with a wonderful eye. But at no point does this become an exercise in abstraction. Morley always foregrounds her emotional sensibility, Her photos breathe and move and take us on a voyage of discovery.”