Sculptural wall altars designed as ‘Power Pieces’ built from objects and fragments crossing culture, language, geography and time. Intended to re-consider ‘what’s respectable?’, the use of everyday items, ephemera and detritus and proposes alternative sources of social knowledge and power.
Combining jewellery, textiles, steel fragments and rusted iron, hierarchies are reversed, privileging humble and damaged items to challenge what we value as ‘refined’ and what we preserve.
Everyday Miracles is 1 of a series of 6 ‘Power Pieces’.
Biography:
Tyler Moorehead is a sculptor using folklore and objects to challenge conventional notions of respectability and codes of conduct when moving between cultures.
Her installations have been shown at TATE Modern, IRCAM Paris and London Design Biennale.
A previous career in mental health and a lifetime dancing between culture, language and unspoken rules inspire Tyler’s line of enquiry into behavioural norms.
Through objects, Tyler straddles boundaries of status and time to reset generational expectations. She collects and sources items from the land, from old houses, from family heirlooms and from dumpsters. She draws on fashion to link present to past. She reclaims local folklore to unlock her own ancestral wisdom.
Before practicing, Tyler initiated the mental health leadership programme for the social care 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. Tyler is included in the title 100 words: 200 visionaries share their hopes for the future, (Conari Press). She was awarded ‘Art Installation of the Year’ by Design in Mental Health, 2019.
Tyler studied cultural anthropology and documentary film for her B.A. before returning to education to complete a Masters in experiential research and design from the Royal College of Art in 2021.
Born and raised in the US, Tyler made 49 house moves across countries and contexts, emigrating to the UK where she lived for many years before settling in Italy in 2020.