Dr Elle Reynolds

A current project situates Morass as a living site within an overarching and iterative mapping of alternative art education. It explores Morass in Negril, Jamaica, not as a fixed location, but as a constellation of spaces: environmental, historical, and conceptual. In removing the definite article, Morass becomes fluid: a living site, a place of nourishment and connection for biodiversity, and a sanctuary for marooned or peripheral communities. It is conceived as an evolving cartography of fragments, memory, and resistance. Through collaborative mappings, we/the project investigate transitions from sea to seagrass meadows to swamp, tracing the movement of water as it travels, deposits, and shapes terrain. By drawing on local knowledge systems and responding to site-based and documented social, political, and material narratives, Morass becomes both a tool of orientation and a call to attention. It points to the possibilities of the then and now, reimagines and imagines actions and languages, forming one aspect of a wider conceptual map.

Elle is a member of the collaborative project, No Telos, which was part of the Research Pavilion, Venice 2019. Additionally her work has been exhibited and performed at locations, art spaces and galleries, in Estonia, Italy, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom. She has held External Examiner positions for many years. Elle is currently on the board of Directors for TOMA, (The Other MA), Southend on Sea.