Paul Morrison
Born 1966 in Liverpool, UK. He lives and works in Yorkshire, UK.
Works
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Untitled (framed landscape), 2019
24 carat gold leaf/oxid black acrylic on linen
Contact Gallery
30 x 40 x 4 cm
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Editions
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Still Life (after Ambrosius Bossschaert), 2019
Giclée print
Contact Gallery
57 x 39,5 cm
Edition: 50
For this edition Morrison refrained from his signature use of monochrome to convey a colorful print with reference to Dutch baroque painter Bosschaert, who is famous for his flower still lives. -
Beck, 2013
Woodcut type print
Contact Gallery
Photo Polymer print on Römerturm paper 270 gr.
118 x 84,5 cm
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Snowblind, 2003
Wall object, white, acrylic on plastic on alu
Contact Gallery
62 x 41 x 3 cm, framed ca. 78,5 x 57 x 6 cm
Edition of 15
Very early example of an artist using the technique of 3D-printing for an art object. -
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About
BIOGRAPHY
Paul Morrison graduated from Goldsmiths College in London in 1998 (MA) and attended their PhD Program from 1998 to 2000. He has since developed an international reputation through major museum exhibitions and commissions.
ABOUT HIS WORK
Since the mid-1990s Morrison has been working on the subject of landscape, particularly in large site-specific wall paintings and on paintings on canvas, but also in films and sculptures. He confronts the viewer with a relatively narrow selection of significant artistic motifs and topoi that stand for the genre of landscape, rendering a new conceptual approach to the this topic especially represented in British art history.
Morrison's black-and-white landscapes made up of found and adapted pictorial material have long entered collective pictorial memory, although his own idiom and means have also significantly changed over recent years. He still prefers monochromes, but now often replaces black and white with gold leaf or silver, pursuing his early interest in the theme of the mirror and reflections. Very early in his career, Morrison defined his own conceptual approach, consistently using and repeating a figurative hard-edge pictorial idiom that drew on sources ranging from medieval engravings to botanical drawings to comics. He has since expanded this slowly and subtly. In addition to flora, his landscapes began to include fragments of architecture, figures in historical costume and animals, also using found imagery. These elements started off as staffage and then slowly came to conquer the foreground of Morrison's pictures.
His work can be found in many public art collections, including Victoria and Albert Museum, South London Gallery and British Council Collection in London, Museum of Modern Art in New York, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Museum of Art in Rhode Island, Städel Museum in Frankfurt and Elgiz Museum in Istanbul.
Sabine Knust produced their first edition with Morrison, a 3D print relief titled SNOWBLIND, in 2003, at a time, when it was utterly unusual for artists to work in this medium.
SELECTED SOLO PROJECTS
2019
Dahlia, Sabine Knust Galerie, Munich, Germany
Dandelion, Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany
Lucid Garden, The Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, USA
2018
Horsetail, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2017
Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken, Germany
2015
Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
2014
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2013
Black Light, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
2012
Auctorum, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2011
Florigen, Fondazione Volume, Rome, Italy
2009
The Horticultural Society of New York Gallery, New York, NY
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2008
Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2007
Bloomberg Space, London, UK
2006
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2003
Saxifraga, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy
Haematoxylon, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2002
Mesophylle, Magasin, Grenoble, France
Corymb, Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
Chloroplast, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
2001
Wallworks: Ingrid Calame/Paul Morrison, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2000
UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA