Mali Morris
Mali Morris was born on February 5, 1945, in Caernarfon, North Wales. She studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1963 to 1968, then earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Reading in 1970. That year, she began teaching extramural studies at Sunderland College of Art.
In the 1970s, Morris established a studio in Greenwich, South London, near where she still lives and works. Her first solo exhibitions took place in the Serpentine Gallery’s Summer Show in 1977 and at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham in 1979. In 1980, at the invitation of the artist Stass Paraskos, she was artist-in-residence at the Cyprus College of Art in Lempa, Cyprus. She is a founding artist-member of the Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT) in Deptford, South London.
Morris has taught and examined in fine art departments across the United Kingdom, including Newcastle, Reading, the Royal College of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art, and Chelsea College of Art and Design, where she was a Senior Lecturer from 1991 to 2005. In 1997, she began her Clearing paintings, made by removing areas from still-wet layers of paint. She chaired the panel of the Jerwood Contemporary Painters in 2009, and in March 2010 she was elected a Royal Academician.
Her later solo and two-person exhibitions include Mali Morris: Small Works at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2010, Mali Morris: Back to Front at the Eagle Gallery in London and Mali Morris: Paintings at the Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno in 2012, and Pearled and Pasted at Fold Gallery in London in 2017. In 2019, the Royal Academy presented Mali Morris: On Paper in its Tennant Gallery, accompanied by a monograph. That year, her work was also included in Harder Edge at the Saatchi Gallery in London. She served as Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy Schools from 2019 to 2020, and she exhibits regularly in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Her work can be found in public and institutional collections including Arts Council England, the British Council, the Contemporary Art Society, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, the Royal Collection, and the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.
Sources: Blackbird Rook and JGM Gallery
Mali Morris was born on February 5, 1945, in Caernarfon, North Wales. She studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1963 to 1968, then earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Reading in 1970. That year, she began teaching extramural studies at Sunderland College of Art.
In the 1970s, Morris established a studio in Greenwich, South London, near where she still lives and works. Her first solo exhibitions took place in the Serpentine Gallery’s Summer Show in 1977 and at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham in 1979. In 1980, at the invitation of the artist Stass Paraskos, she was artist-in-residence at the Cyprus College of Art in Lempa, Cyprus. She is a founding artist-member of the Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT) in Deptford, South London.
Morris has taught and examined in fine art departments across the United Kingdom, including Newcastle, Reading, the Royal College of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art, and Chelsea College of Art and Design, where she was a Senior Lecturer from 1991 to 2005. In 1997, she began her Clearing paintings, made by removing areas from still-wet layers of paint. She chaired the panel of the Jerwood Contemporary Painters in 2009, and in March 2010 she was elected a Royal Academician.
Her later solo and two-person exhibitions include Mali Morris: Small Works at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2010, Mali Morris: Back to Front at the Eagle Gallery in London and Mali Morris: Paintings at the Mostyn Gallery in Llandudno in 2012, and Pearled and Pasted at Fold Gallery in London in 2017. In 2019, the Royal Academy presented Mali Morris: On Paper in its Tennant Gallery, accompanied by a monograph. That year, her work was also included in Harder Edge at the Saatchi Gallery in London. She served as Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy Schools from 2019 to 2020, and she exhibits regularly in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Her work can be found in public and institutional collections including Arts Council England, the British Council, the Contemporary Art Society, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, the Royal Collection, and the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.
Sources: Blackbird Rook and JGM Gallery