Morgan Sinton-Hewitt

Rising from the storm / I rise / She was made in the storm (2021-2022) Studio view

 

My practice is painterly, embodied, experiential and transformative, and this flows through my drawing, writing and research, into educational and socially engaged work.

I work with(in) the simultaneous realities of past, present and future; through embodied articulations; co-becoming(s) with(in) the world. I weave with both the human and non-human, embracing the mix of stone and air and trees that form intricate aspects of self, identity, memory, movement and place.

My work is an (intra)action which works on the microcosm-macrocosm of my own (life)universe and enlivens possible futures within my (mind)body. In my experience, my lived, felt-sensed experience, all phenomena have co-creative force.

I am concerned with transformation. Through this I enact a drama of internal revolution.

 

Within my everyday lived experience, I enact a drama of inner transformation for outer transformation with my art. Human revolution is the term for this in my Buddhist practice (www.SGI-UK.org). It is a self determined and interconnected spiritual effort. Through the seen and unseen realities of my life, I create hope and enliven possible futures, first within my own heart. 

 


I facilitate educational, wellbeing and other art-process interventions, in one-to one’s, groups, and in partnership, with local artists and organisations, engaging within communities and schools. My inter/multi-disciplinary socialy engaged education practice weaves the arts, philosophy, sciences and more.

 

In 2022 I will embark on a practice based arts PhD programme ‘Symbiotic Bodies’ with UCA where I will investigate how embodied interconnection (over the realms of self, society and land) can create pathways for creative coexistence, or symbiosis. I will use my socially engaged arts practice as part of the research methodology, inviting others to co-research with me, over time. 

 


 

workshop images – From the Inside out (2016)

 


 I am currently engaging in new community projects, commissions and collaborations, if you would like to work with me – email

 

Mosaics for Mental Health (2018)

Feedback:

Online experimental drawing workshops with a community group from Walton Allotment Charity combating isolation in lockdown – Feedback from the group:

“Loved this! So calm and relaxing”

“Stretched my mind as I would never have picked up a pencil and tried this”

“Awesomely, amazing, fun, good to try new things and try different ways of doing things and pushes your boundaries. Lovely lady!”

“My favourite activity, so much fun”

“Enjoyed learning new techniques”

“Lots of new ideas. I will be using with the Girl Guides”

“So chilled and fun”

“Wouldn’t mind getting an art kit”

“A much better teacher than I had at school!”

“I valued that I am not an artist but this allowed me to explore and experience having a go at art”

 


One (2021)

Human beings are each a microcosm. Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.” 

 

The arts and culture function to revitalize and restore the human spirit and humanity itself. “Our planet is scarred and damaged, its life systems threatened with collapse . . . Modern civilization will be healthy only when the poetic spirit regains its rightful place”. 

 

Quotes by Daisaku Ikeda 

 

https://www.daisakuikeda.org/main/culture/cultivating-the-human-spirit/overview.html

within wave earth air (2019)