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About
Anna Morris
Artist
Somerset, UK
I am an artist based in Somerset. My work explores light, surface and landscape.
My work explores the transient effects 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. Much of my work references moving through the landscape and is rarely specific to a particular place but informed by memory and experience.
My process is a combination of painting and collage, resulting in small scale works on card and plywood. The collaged fragments I use are sometimes many years old and I use a wide range of experimental means to produce these through a process of addition and deletion. I often incorporate fragments of prints - monotype, stone lithographs, dry point, collagraph and more recently screenprints. I collate and sift, selecting and combining, layering and reworking until the composition settles into its final form.
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
2023
Solo, Somerset Open Studios, 2, Church St - Isle Abbotts, Taunton
2022
Group, ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries - London, UK (11th - 20th November, 2022)
2022
Group, 'Ebb and Flow', Studio Cennen, - Heol Cennen, Ffairfach, Llandeilo, SA19 6UH (31st August - 25th September 2022)
2022
Group, RWA, 169th Open Exhibition, RWA, Royal West of England Academy - Bristol ((Oct 8th 2022 - Jan 8th 2023))
2022
Group, Bath Society of Artists 117th Open 2022, Victoria Art Gallery - Bath
2021
Group, Bath Society of Artists 116th Open 2021, Victoria Art Gallery - Bath
2020
Group, RWA, 168th Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol (Nov 21 – March 7, 2021)
2020
Group, Bath Society of Artists 115th Open 2020, virtual (hosted on the Victoria Art Gallery website from 2 Nov – 3 Jan 2021)
2019
Group, Opening show, Irving Gallery - Oxford
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 114th 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]