Martina Vermorel (b. 1983, Ipswich, Suffolk) is an artist and writer. She studied Art & Performance with Textual Practices at Dartington College of Arts and graduated in 2011. She has been producing and exhibiting work since 2004 and is currently making a project titled Horse Woman, which is both a collection of short stories and poems as well as performances which have been shown in different parts of the UK, including Cornwall and Wales.
Artist Statement
My work is created in a live context to form a series of photographs. The work contains curiosities about the similarities between how the traditions of both the housewife and the artist are characterised in their everyday actions, creating, cleaning and analysing. They are also personified in their emotional upheaval of disappointment, approval and loneliness. More recently the work has found itself being compared to animal behaviour in particular horses, looking at the communication between us and them and how their psychological characteristics compare to our own.