Morus Quin is a Sydney based artist working across, performance, printmaking, painting and jewellery. Quin’s work maps out culturally modified perspectives of the body, inhabiting both feminist and medical perspectives. She unravels the impacts of trauma on the body, seeking to understand the body’s processes of activity and decay in response to trauma.

So, when did you start your artmaking?

I like to think that the farm animals I once drew with waxy crayons on flimsy cartridge paper as a four year old informs the work that I'm creating now. It's the same person making the work really, I just have more motor skills these days.

I started taking art a little more seriously in my adult life at 18 to be exact. My entirety before art was set on becoming an athlete but I got pretty sick and art kept me going in that time, I became as enamoured by art as I was by sport.

Who or what has inspired you as an artist?

Healing and the discovery of my truths. In a patriarchal, capitalist culture built on falsehoods, art provides an authentication I find in very few places, nature is one of those places as well. 

Truth serum blue, truth serum grey, truth serum oil paints, safety is truth serum, connection is truth serum, truth is healing and my art leads me back to my truth.

What themes do you pursue and explore in your multidisciplinary works?

Sex, sexual violence, the impacts of trauma on the body, cultural and medical perspectives of the body. 

I want my work to pick up on imagery that is not made visible by the diagnostic medical imaging of MRI's, of blood tests, of x rays, a lens we often view the sick body through but rather pick up on the experience of the body that is sensed and known through art. A lot of my work is of me coming back into my body in quick passing moments, grappling with a past that feels like fiction and with my lost health.