R&F Mo, Sycamore Gap, 2024
Water-based paint and oil paint on canvas, 138 x 138cm
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 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. Imaginary figures and beasts inhabit the artist’s vibrant worlds, telling unfinished stories that– in Mo’s words - ‘reference alternative beings and multiple dimensions, allowing the unconscious to come into play’.
This fantastical large-scale painting on canvas is part of our ‘Almost Blue’ online collection and exhibition. It is inspired by the artist’s childhood memories of picnics on Hadrian’s wall. ‘I loved the old smooth stones and green moss, though I had no idea what the wall stood for, nor that decades later the first African settlement in the UK would be identified nearby; Moorish soldiers guarding the Roman wall against the marauding Scots. Where were the soldiers when the chainsaw came and sliced through the Sycamore? I like to imagine a platoon of furious Moorish spectres circling the senseless vandal, and scaring him witless.’
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.
Water-based paint and oil paint on canvas, 138 x 138cm
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 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. Imaginary figures and beasts inhabit the artist’s vibrant worlds, telling unfinished stories that– in Mo’s words - ‘reference alternative beings and multiple dimensions, allowing the unconscious to come into play’.
This fantastical large-scale painting on canvas is part of our ‘Almost Blue’ online collection and exhibition. It is inspired by the artist’s childhood memories of picnics on Hadrian’s wall. ‘I loved the old smooth stones and green moss, though I had no idea what the wall stood for, nor that decades later the first African settlement in the UK would be identified nearby; Moorish soldiers guarding the Roman wall against the marauding Scots. Where were the soldiers when the chainsaw came and sliced through the Sycamore? I like to imagine a platoon of furious Moorish spectres circling the senseless vandal, and scaring him witless.’
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.
Water-based paint and oil paint on canvas, 138 x 138cm
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 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. Imaginary figures and beasts inhabit the artist’s vibrant worlds, telling unfinished stories that– in Mo’s words - ‘reference alternative beings and multiple dimensions, allowing the unconscious to come into play’.
This fantastical large-scale painting on canvas is part of our ‘Almost Blue’ online collection and exhibition. It is inspired by the artist’s childhood memories of picnics on Hadrian’s wall. ‘I loved the old smooth stones and green moss, though I had no idea what the wall stood for, nor that decades later the first African settlement in the UK would be identified nearby; Moorish soldiers guarding the Roman wall against the marauding Scots. Where were the soldiers when the chainsaw came and sliced through the Sycamore? I like to imagine a platoon of furious Moorish spectres circling the senseless vandal, and scaring him witless.’
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.
