Description:
Le Sentinale is a sculpture installation of totems - benevolent guardian forms constructed from fragments associated with manual and agricultural labour and domestic remnants associated with social
class.
Playing with conventions of precarity they are deceptively strong structures balanced on slim legs.
Combining the ancient and the handcrafted with the modern and the machine-made, Le
Sentinale traverse time, social class and material context to consider the wisdom and resilience that comes from mobility and living between cultures.
Le Sentinale serve as encouragements to those forgotten, discarded or overlooked by conventional notions of respectability. They seek to challenge what and who we consider to be of value, and what and who we feel belongs.
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.