Sund (Notes From the Sea)
Moira Bateman
Form + Content Gallery is proud to present Sund (Notes From the Sea) mixed media and textile works by Moira Bateman. The exhibition explores environmental impacts of human activity from an ecocentric perspective that draws from Bateman’s summer 2024 residency in Ålvik, Norway. The work features the sea’s currents and tides, whales and underwater noise pollution, and a “big bag”.
“Waterways are my primary collaborators as I welcome chance and the action of the elements into my work. I seek to give voice to the natural world through an ecocentric perspective that values the inherent worth of biodiversity in plants, animals, and the intricate environmental systems they inhabit.” Moira Bateman
On View: January 30 – March 08, 2025 (Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 12-6pm)
Opening Reception: Saturday February 1, 4:00 to 6:00 pm
ABOUT MOIRA BATEMAN
Moira Bateman is an American artist based in Minneapolis who works in site responsive, ecologically based, mixed media and textile constructions. Bateman's early work in landscape ecology and native plant community reclamation projects fuels her current practice working in collaboration with these natural ecosystems, the elements, and chance. Bateman’s exhibitions include DeVos Art Museum, Minnesota Museum of Art, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Science Museum of Minnesota, Bowery Gallery, 108/Contemporary, ecoartspace, The Integral Museum of Akademgorodok, McKnight Foundation Lobby Gallery, Dreamsong Art, Textile Center, University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota College of Design, Carnegie Art Center, Instinct Gallery, The Phipps Center for the Arts, Grand Marais Art Colony, and Form+Content Gallery. Bateman has received awards from McKnight Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board and Grand Marais Art Colony. Residencies include Art Omi: Artists, KHMessen Norway, Grand Marais Art Colony, and St. Croix Watershed Research Station. Bateman holds a Master’s of Landscape Architecture from the University of Minnesota.