Annie Morris
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WorksBiography
All my work revolves around the different experiences that I’ve had or situations I’ve been in, though without being literal or descriptive.
Annie Morris (b. 1978, London, United Kingdom) is a British artist who utilises tapestry, painting, and drawing in her work. Morris is best known for her ‘Stack’ sculptures, which comprise colorful, irregularly shaped orbs arranged one atop another in vertical strings. The artist’s ‘Stacks’ are made from plaster and cast bronze and are painted in vivid raw pigments such as ultramarine, viridian, and ochre. In this series, which was initiated during a period of grieving following a miscarriage, spheres appear to hover above the floor on plinths on which they rest, forever threatening to topple over—a nod to both the miracle of life and its precarity.
In addition to her ‘Stack’ series, Morris explores the feminine body in her drawing-like tapestries and linear figural sculptures, as well as in abstract paintings like her voluptuously gestural, allover ‘Face’ series. These works signal the myriad ways of inhabiting the female body.
Morris studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris between 1997 and 2001 under Giuseppe Penone before completing her education at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2003. 2021 marked the artist’s first museum exhibition, with a solo presentation of sculptures and tapestries at Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Weston Gallery. In 2023, she was commissioned by the Hepford Wakefield to create a permanent installation for the West Yorkshire History Centre. Her first museum survey in China, Hope from a Thin Line at the Fosun Foundation in Shanghai, brought together sculptures, tapestries, and paintings from 2012 to the present day in 2024.
Exhibitions-
Annie Morris
Permanent Moments 2 November - 16 December 2023 New YorkThe exhibition features monumental sculptures in both bronze and plaster alongside richly threaded tapestries.View More -
Birdsong
13 July - 11 August 2023 LondonTimothy Taylor is pleased to present Birdsong, a group exhibition of works showcasing influential voices in contemporary British art, at the gallery’s London space. Spanning genres and generations, Birdsong presents an eclectic group of works by UK-based and British artists including Tomo Campbell, Daniel Crews-Chubb, Tracey Emin, Emma Fineman, Rowley Haynes, Sophie von Hellermann, Chantal Joffe, Idris Khan, Rachel Kneebone, Richard Long, Sahara Longe, Annie Morris, Richard Patterson, Andrew Pierre Hart, Paula Rego, Catherine Repko, Anne Rothenstein, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Antonia Showering, and Rachel Whiteread. This program supports The Royal Marsden, a world-leading cancer research centre and hospital in London.View More -
Annie Morris
6 - 13 October 2021Timothy Taylor is pleased to present a new selection of sculptures, drawings and tapestries by British artist Annie Morris (b. 1978, London, UK). The exhibition will coincide with Morris’s first solo museum exhibition in the UK, When A Happy Thing Falls at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and her inclusion in Frieze Sculpture 2021. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with a newly commissioned essay by the esteemed poet and art critic Rachel Spence.View More -
Annie Morris
Diaries 20 October - 28 November 2020 LondonTimothy Taylor is pleased to present an online exhibition of works on paper and a new bronze sculpture edition by London-based artist Annie Morris. Morris created this body of work during a period of prolonged isolation with her family during the coronavirus pandemic, where the artist began to translate the symbols and marks that re-occur in her work into rhythmic, narrative drawings. In this series, Morris meditates on the freedom and limitations of the diary as a medium for self-expression, encapsulating each work with the gestural freedom of automatic drawing and the subconscious.View More -
Annie Morris
13 September - 26 October 2019 New YorkTimothy Taylor, New York is pleased to present the gallery’s first solo exhibition of new works by British artist Annie Morris. Drawing on both personal experience and the history of art, Morris’s multi-disciplinary practice encompasses sculpture, tapestry, and drawing.View More
Institutional
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Annie Morris: Hope From a Thin Line
Fosun Foundation, Shanghai 23 March – 2 June 2024Fosun Foundation is delighted to announce Hope From a Thin Line, a solo exhibition of works by Annie Morris, in Shanghai. The artist’s first museum survey show in China will... -
Idris Khan & Annie Morris: When Loss Makes Melodies
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London 4 October 2023 – 7 January 2024This Autumn, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery proudly unveils an emotionally resonant exhibition featuring the works of British contemporary artists and life partners, Idris Khan and Annie Morris. Imbued with themes... -
Annie Morris and Idris Khan: Two Worlds Entwined
Newlands House, Petworth, West Sussex, UK 11 February – 4 June 2023Two Worlds Entwined: Annie Morris and Idris Khan explores the artistic practices of Annie Morris and Idris Khan within the historic and intimate setting of Newlands House gallery. Artist Annie... -
Annie Morris
Chateau La Coste, France 1 July – 3 January 2023The inaugural show in France by British artist Annie Morris will take place in the newly completed Oscar Niemeyer pavilion. The exhibition features new sculptures, tapestries and paintings, as well... -
Annie Morris: When a Happy Thing Falls
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton 25 September 2021 – 6 February 2022YSP will display a series of sculpture and tapestry by British artist Annie Morris in her first UK, solo museum exhibition, timed to coincide with her exhibition at Timothy Taylor...
News
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In Conversation | Annie Morris and Idris Khan
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London 7 December 2023, 6:45pmThursday 7 December, Annie Morris and Idris Khan will be in conversation for a personal discussion on love, grief, and memory at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery on the occasion of... -
Timothy Taylor to represent Annie Morris
8 July 2019Timothy Taylor is delighted to announce the representation of British artist Annie Morris. The gallery will present Morris’s first solo exhibition at Timothy Taylor, New York this September. “We are...
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My Home with Idris Khan and Annie Morris: 'As artists, we love colour'
Charlotte Duck, The Standard, 10 October 2024 -
Annie Morris | This Week in Culture: October 30 – November 5
CULTURED, 30 October 2023 -
How Artist Annie Morris Brings Her Whimsical Sculptures and Drawings to Life
Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 22 October 2023 -
Annie Morris & Idris Khan at Pitzhanger Manor: ‘Painful moments make the best work’
Nancy Durrant, The Standard, 4 October 2023 -
Annie Morris: The Most In-demand Artists Who Aren’t Painters
Arun Kakar, Artsy, 29 August 2023 -
Annie Morris on her passion for pigment and finding solace in art
Jane Ure-Smith, Financial Times, 8 October 2021 -
How Annie Morris channelled personal tragedy into her towering sculptures
Harper's Bazaar, 2 September 2021