visual artist
Moira Bateman is an American artist based in Minneapolis who works in site responsive, ecologically based, mixed media and textile constructions. Bateman's early work in landscape ecology and native plant community reclamation projects fuels her current practice working in collaboration with these natural ecosystems, the elements, and chance.
“Waterways are my primary collaborators as I welcome chance and the action of the elements. I seek to give voice to the natural world through an ecocentric perspective that values the inherent worth of biodiversity in plants, animals, and the intricate environmental systems they inhabit.”
- Moira Bateman
Bog Etudes: Moira Bateman at Form+Content Gallery 2023, video by Liam Porter
Robyne Robinson, Fiber Art Now
“Bateman’s work is a study of metamorphoses. An environmentalist and student of famed sculptor Kinji Akagawa, she adopted the principle that all art is the product of gathering and creating ideas for the public to consume and reinterpret. Bateman applied this theory to the source of her artwork—the boggy mud and how the minerals in it enrich and transform pigments within the cloth.”
Alicia Eler, Star Tribune
“Bateman's work comes across as a collaboration with that which already exists. The result is objects as fragile as Earth itself.”
Tracy Krumm, McKnight Fiber Fellowship Director at Textile Center, Minneapolis
“Bateman’s unwavering dedication to a practice focused on sustainability, whether it be her work in landscape architecture or eco-conscious art and place making that has been the foundation of her work all year, and the fellowship gift has supported her pursuit of new directions in the studio.”
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Bog Etudes
Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis MN
Installation of cut silk, dyed with bog mud and layered with wax
2023
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Etudes: Watersheds, Bogs, Kayaks
The 2022 McKnight Fiber Fellowship Exhibition
Textile Center Minneapolis
2023
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You Me: For my mother
Grand Marais Art Colony, Grand Marais Minnesota
Silk left in Prune Lake, Gunflint Trail August 2019-August 2020. Exhibition May 2021.
2019-2021
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By Way of Water
Bowery Gallery, New York City
Large scale abstractions of Minnesota Lake micro-organisms, waterway stained silk waxed assemblages.
2019
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Hand of The River
Silk left submerged Mississippi River near Winona MN
Peace silk, mud stain, sediment, wax
Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Winona MN 2016
McKnight Foundation Lobby Gallery, Minneapolis MN 2016-2017
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The Hungry Girls
A series of 9 giantess forms made of raw Navajo Churro sheep fleeces Nuno felted into onion skin dyed linen and hung from animal yokes. Based on the story by Patricia Eakins “The Hungry Girls”.
2011-2015
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Field to Table
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chanhassen MN
A year-long installation highlighting rows of vegetable plants growing out of a harvest table with spring, summer and fall crops.
2010
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