Artist Statement

I’m a sculptor working with fragments of things. I construct installations, totems, wall altars and friezes as monuments to overlooked sources of wisdom and power.

Drawing cues from tarot, shrines and ancestral stones, I treat remnants of domestic and manual labour as sacred components of timeless forms. I flip hierarchies of materials — layering time, class, texture and historical clues to propose new notions of value.

A lifetime dancing between culture, language and unspoken rules finds me now grasping at fragments to resist my own erasure. I delve into folklore to reclaim my ancestral wisdom. I draw on codes of fashion to link our present to the ancient past. Straddling boundaries of class, race and time, I reset generational expectations — a continuous flow of physical, sensory and emotional data that demands a counter-narrative for what is valued and who belongs. 

Bio T_T_ Moorehead

T_T_ Moorehead is a sculptor and installation artist with a background in mental health advocacy, social leadership and environmental justice. She uses objects, fragments and folklore to address forms of respectability and access to power.

T_T_ initiated the social care leadership programme for the Think Ahead Masters at Middlesex University. She has worked on environmental leadership projects for the UN Environment Programme, UN Food & Agricultural Organisation and G.L.O.B.E. International. She is included in the title 100 words: 200 visionaries share their hopes for the future, (Conari Press) and was awarded ‘Art Installation of the Year’ by Design in Mental Health, 2019. Raised in the USA, T_T_ has made 49 house moves between countries and contexts, for family or by choice, landing in Central Italy in 2021.

T_T_ completed her B.A. in philosophy, cultural anthropology and documentary film before returning to education to complete a Masters in experiential research and design from the Royal College of Art in 2021. Her installations have been shown at TATE Modern studios, IRCAM Paris and London Design Biennale. Her new socio-political series of self-portrait diaries, DYSTROPIUM: 120 days of exposure, is developing research on emotions as a stream of information.

Image: Leonora Oppenheim