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About
Anna Morris
Artist
Somerset, UK
I am an artist based in Somerset. My work is about light, surface and the objectness of painting.
My work explores the transformative effect of light, investigating mark-making and referencing landscape through drawing, painting and collage. I aim to create works that evoke the experience of visual phenomena – of atmospheric light and luminosity – whilst drawing attention to their making, their edges and the physical properties of weight, volume, materials and processes. Recent work has become more figurative, moving from Oxford to Somerset and the proximity of the coast has influenced this change. I use a variety of processes and materials in my work, some conventional such as oil paint, collage and print, others less common. Wrapping oak blocks with thread, soaking card and paper in oil, using household paints and varnishes, scoring and incising perspex and plywood in order to make marks. I draw with collaged papers, oil soaked and marked with these processes using a knife and occasionally thread to articulate the surface of my work. I am interested in the ‘objectness’ of painting - the relationship between the surface of my paintings with their sometimes oblique reference to landscape and the physicality of the pieces and whether it is possible to hold these two elements in balance.
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Exhibitions
2019
Publication and Exhibition, Drawing on Dorset, Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Country Park - Swanage (The exhibition and publication explores current themes, trends, and innovations in contemporary drawing practices.)
2019
Group, Bath Society of Artists Open 2019, Victoria Art Gallery - Bath, GB
2019
Group, New English Art Club (NEAC) Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries - London (Friday 14 to Saturday 22 June)
2018
Group, Black Swan Arts Open, Black Swan Arts - Frome (19 October to 24 November)
2018
Group, Millfield Summer Show 2018, The Atkinson Gallery - Street (25th June – 3rd August)
2018
Group, Bath Open Art Prize 2018, Studio44AD - Bath (part of #FaB2018)
2017
Group, RWA 165th Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy - Bristol
2017
Solo, ‘Coast’, King’s College - Taunton (Somerset Art Weeks 2017)
2016
Group, Wells Art Contemporary 2016, The Bishop’s Palace - Wells, Somerset
2016
Group, Mini, West Oxon Arts Centre - Bampton, Oxon
2016
Group, Dis locate, VW Garage - Iffley Road (Magdalen Road Studio’s exhibition)
2015
Group, OVADA Seven Counties Open, OVADA - Oxford
2015
Group, Unravelling Time, The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay - Oxon
2014
Group, New Work from OX14, O3 Gallery - Oxford (New work from Magdalen Road Studios)
2013
Group, A Grand Day Out, Art Jericho - Oxford
2013
Group, Drawing show, O3 Gallery - Oxford
2012
Solo, Object Horizon, Wiseman Gallery - Oxford
2012
Art Fair, Bristol Affordable Art Fair, Wiseman Gallery - Bristol
2012
Art Fair, Glasgow Art Fair, Wiseman Gallery - Glasgow
2011
Art Fair, Hampstead Affordable Art Fair, Wiseman Gallery - London
2008
Group, Les Chemins du Dialogue, Grenoble Town Hall - Grenoble, France (exhange exhibition with French artists)
2007
Group, MA All, Stroud House Gallery - Stroud, Gloucestershire
Education
Wimbledon College of Art (UAL)
MA in Fine Art: Painting
2004 – 2006 • London, UK
Oxford Polytechnic
Visual Studies and Art History
1988 – 1991 • Oxford
Awards
2018
Friends of Black Swan Arts award, Black Swan Arts Open (award given for votes for my piece ‘Intertidal 1’ both for the public vote and Friends vote)
2018
2nd prize winner of the Bath Open Art Prize 2018, Fringe Arts Bath
2018
Joint winner of the Babyforest Painting and Exhibition Prize 2018, babyforest [link]