Môrafon

Title: Mycelium Moss - An Ideation


Môrafon recently embarked on an iterative exploration, crafting 'living sculptures' from clay and indigenous UK plants. These pieces depict symbiotic mycelium and host living moss, contemplating the potential of retrofitted living rainchains to provide benefits to the built environment. Through iterative prototypes, Môrafon seeks to envision how wetland botany could be harnessed, including functions such as particle and carbon capture, water purification, and habitat creation. The ideation drawings and sculptures aim to stimulate discussion and research, revealing fresh paradigms at the intersection of art and science.

 Location: Bristol, UK 

Creative Experience 

As a multidisciplinary artist, my investigations explore relationships between people, nature, and architecture. I seek ways to connect humanity more closely with the natural world; sometimes my work describes a melancholy sensed between physical and emotional space – roads, junctions, and the places in between. I've exhibited in Bristol, Slimbridge, Exeter, and London. During a residency with Bristol Archives, I used animation and installations to re-draw landscape features lost to the 1960s road development for a show titled Stone Landscapes. For Big Green Week, I curated artists' work, alongside my own. The final show, Propagate Way, brought together a green bridge concept for Bristol's M32, envisaging new ways to traverse the motorway that runs from the city's heart to its edge.

Biography and links 

With a background spanning two decades at the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust, Môrafon is a seasoned conservation interpreter for UK and international clients. Now, leading Creative Direction at VisitMôr, their work supports powerful storytelling in natural and cultural heritage, whether places of worship, leisure landscapes, visitor centres, charities, NGOs, or local authorities. Their contributions have earned award nominations and doubled peak visitation. Formerly chair of the Association for Heritage Interpretation, Môrafon co-wrote the Interpretation for Diversity and Inclusion Best Practice Guide and remains a trustee, leading EDI. 

https://visitmor.co.uk


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