MALI MORRIS
Mali Morris is one of the founder Artist-members of APT.
Born in 1945 in north Wales, she studied Fine Art at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Reading. She has lived and worked in London since 1972.
Her first major exhibitions were at the Serpentine Summer Show 3, London, 1977 and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1979. Since then she has held over 35 solo shows worldwide, and has been included in numerous group shows, in London at the Barbican, Hayward Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, and at the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, Whitworth Art Gallery Manchester, Museum of Wales Cardiff, as well as a number overseas. She has received awards from the Arts Council, British Council, DAIWA Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Elephant Trust, GLAA, the Lorne Award and the Sunny Dupree Award, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Her work is held in many private and public collections, including Arts Council, British Council, Contemporary Arts Society, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Government Art Collection, Kasser Mochary Foundation USA, Museum of Wales Cardiff, Pallant House Chichester, Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Collection, and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Part-song, 2017 Acrylic on canvas, 198 x 214 cm (Private Collection)
In 2019, Mali Morris exhibited 23 of her early works on paper in the Tennant Gallery, Royal Academy and was invited to curate a companion show for the RA’s Collection Gallery Cabinet. Her selection included Constable’s Rainstorm Over the Sea, 1828. (Image in the public domain)
At the time of the exhibition Henry Matisse: The Cut-Outs at Tate Modern in 2014, Mali Morris paid tribute to the artist’s directness, inventiveness and exuberance.
Image: detail from Glide 2013
Mali Morris: Painting, published by the RA, 2019
This book is the first to present the full range of Morris's paintings, alongside an insightful essay by Sam Cornish that evaluates the influence and importance of her work, an illustrated chronology, and a preface by the eminent art historian Mel Gooding. It comes as a standard edition and a limited edition which is signed and includes the screenprint Calling 2019.
Calling, 2018 Limited Edition screen-print (of 50), available only with monograph.
Staith, 2018 Limited edition screen-print (of 35) 56 x 74 cm
This is one of many prints available from The Print Studio, Cambridge
Ghost, 2017 acrylic on canvas 200 x 220 cm
Mali Morris is currently Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy Schools, until October 2020. She has been a Visiting Lecturer and Examiner at departments of Fine Art across the UK, and from 1991-2005 was 0.5 Senior Lecturer in Painting at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts, London. She chaired the panel of Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2009, was Selector/Mentor of Jerwood Painting Fellowships 2012-13 and Selector for John Moores China, 2014. In 2017 she was Visiting Artist at Vermont Studio Center, USA.
Her most recent solo shows were at FOLD, London in 2017 and at the Royal Academy of Arts, London in 2019. Three shows with Stephen Lewis were in 2012, 2014 and 2017. She was a Trustee of the charity Poetry London, 2013-2019. In 2010 she was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts, London, where she exhibits annually.
A monograph, Mali Morris: Painting was published by the RA in 2019.
LINKS
Back to Front, 2012 acrylic on canvas 70 x 80 cm (Private Collection)
Line Dancer, 2016 Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 80 cm (Private Collection)
Wilbury Four, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 100 x 150 cm
Rivoli II, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 35 x 45 cm
Tipitina Folded, 2020 Acrylic on board 25.5 x 30.5 cm
Vermont, 2019 Acrylic on paper 23 x 28 cm