Overview
I'm interested in cognitive landscape, the terrain that one sees, somewhere behind the eyes.
Morrison’s landscape paintings, murals, films and prints include imagery inspired by a wide array of sources as various as newspapers, cartoons, antique volumes of botanical illustration and sixteenth-century woodcuts.
Biography
Paul Morrison was born in 1966 in Liverpool, UK. He obtained his BA in Fine Art at the Sheffield City Polytechnic, Sheffield and later attended Goldsmiths College, London for a PG DIP in Fine Art, an MA in Fine Art, and a PhD. Paul Morrison is internationally renowned for his bold graphic-style monochrome paintings, site-specific wall paintings, sculptures and films. His work is constructed from a wide array of disparate found imagery scanned into a computer and then modified before being realised in different formats. About these dramatic scale shifts and uncanny juxtapositions Paul Morrison says: ‘I’m interested in cognitive...
Works
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Paul MorrisonNight Mist, 2014acrylic on canvas38 x 50.5 x 3.5 cm
14 15/16 x 19 14/16 x 1 6/16 in -
Paul MorrisonSonnenlicht, 201324 carat gold leaf and acrylic on linen40 x 30 cm
15 11/16 x 11 12/16 in -
Paul MorrisonFirst Light (Study, Gold), 201324 carat Gold and Acrylic on linen40 x 30 cm
15 11/16 x 11 12/16 in -
Paul MorrisonTilia, 201224 carat gold on cast resin glass170 x 130 x 120 cm
66 14/16 x 51 2/16 x 47 3/16 in -
Paul MorrisonAnthocarp, 2007painted aluminium galvanised steel base263 x 220 x 2.5 cm
103 8/16 x 86 9/16 x 0 15/16 in -
Paul MorrisonTopocline, 2005painted aluminium & galvanised steel base266 x 227.3 x 140.3 cm
104 11/16 x 89 7/16 x 55 3/16 in -
Paul MorrisonMoor, 2000acrylic on canvas274 x 183 cm
107 13/16 x 72 1/16 in -
Paul MorrisonShieling, 1999acrylic on canvas152.5 x 228 cm
60 1/16 x 89 12/16 in
Exhibitions
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Resistance 1 - 30.05.2021 Gallery | Knokke KustlaanA refined selection of paintings and sculptures celebrating the power of an inspiring and highly symbolic colour: BLACK.Read more
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British Landscapes
Paul Morrison - Nina Murdoch - George Shaw 5.04 - 8.05.2015 Gallery | Knokke KustlaanJablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery is pleased to announce the ' British Landscapes' exhibition, which will start on April 4 in our gallery in Knokke with the artists George Shaw, Paul...Read more -
Donald Baechler - Paul Morrison 20.03 - 10.05.2008 Gallery | BrusselsRead more
News
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Works celebrating the power of an inspiring and highly symbolic colour: Black
Mutual Art 3.6.2021Maruani Mercier presents works celebrating the power of an inspiring and highly symbolic colour: Black KNOKKE . - The perception of colours and its use...Read more -
Black Grass at Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
Black Grass 7.2.2017With the most recent works by Paul Morrison (b. 1966 in Liverpool), the focus at the beginning of this new year of exhibitions is on...Read more
Art Fairs
