Cameron Mowat is an Illustrator Researcher originating from West Yorkshire. He finds the act of enquiry central to his working practise, using his work to understand the world around him. Over the past 3 years, he has explored Ceramics, Casting, Wood and Metal working, printmaking, film and digital photography, fabric printing, animation and much more; for which he uses to explore how material and process can aid communication and storytelling.
Mowat’s past projects have concerned the many facets of Modern life: Leisure, Religion, Ancient technologies and the politics of localised waste. Through this Mowat is able to draw contradictions and opposites: between the functional and the decorative, The Corporate and the local, the austere and the sexually liberated.
The outcomes Mowat derives, act as intermediaries between subjects and audiences, with material and form existing in conversation. Mowat believes his work would be well suited to intimate, site-dependant research, where an investigative Illustrative practise could lend new insight to a local community.
I am drawn to object making, creating things that force interaction and demand your attention. I find this process helps to answer the questions of a project and gives me direction. My work tends to explore what’s possible in a brief, in order to engage with the subject matter more critically.