ROSIE MORRIS




Rosie Morris is a visual artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She makes large scale installations, painting, film, photography, print, and sound. Her background is making site responsive paintings you walk into and around, activating the viewers encounter and awareness of space in relation to the outside world.

Recent work explores architectural sites as a metaphor for the body: sheltering and archiving traces of caring encounter and memory.



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CHORA


Sara Barker & Rosie Morris
With sound by Sally Pilkington

36 Gallery, Newcastle, 2026

CHORA is a collaborative installation exploring space as a ruined body and archive of encounter with the domestic and more-than-human world. Using the analogy of skin as a semi-porous membrane, Morris created a fabric den, dyed with domestic kitchen waste. Placed inside are Barkers’ small-scale artworks, resembling clippings and votives, referring to pieces cut off, lodged, extracted, summoned or enshrined. 

CHORA references philosopher Julia Kristeva’s concepts of intimacy and the splitting of the self. For Plato it is a third kind of reality, a receptacle and place that is embryonic and tomb-like. Within this, Barker and Morris apply gestures of making and storytelling as metaphor, immersing, staging, bathing, dyeing, wringing, brazing and piercing, to gather and braid personal and fictive stories.






Mother Curator


Reid Gallery, Glasgow, 2026

This exhibition, curated by 4th year Fine Art student Emma Scarlett, brings together existing and new work by GSA staff and students who are mothers.

Artists: Chantal Balmer, Sara Barker, Kate Davis, Louise Donnelly, Fiona Glen, Emma Keogh, Lorna Macintyre, Lindsey McAulay, Shauna McMullan, Kim McNeil, Rosie Morris, Maya El Nahal, Thomai Pnevmonidou, Lesley Punton, Susan Roan, Fiona Robertson, Anna Almqvist Romanus, Emma Scarlett, Annabel Sharp, Niketa Shetty,  Bex Šik and Jennifer Wicks, Stephanie Smith (SMITH/STEWART), Felicity Steers and Josie Williams.

Gestures


Church of St. John, Healey, Northumberland


In her 2024 exhibition GESTURES, Newcastle-based artist Rosie Morris explores experiences of care in relation to the body as a site of touch and shelter, through the lens of ‘daughtering’. This concept investigates the circular relationship between parent and child and how the threads of intergenerational care become entangled with one another. Taking the form of soft sculptures and prints onto aluminium, Morris’s works have a tenderness and familiarity that convey a sense of gentle nostalgia, and speak to the yearning, grasping feeling of fading memories; a fragile thing you want to hold onto.

- extract from My body was their first home, text by Roxanna Watson.

Chalice - Apse / Apse - Chalice


Direct print on gold brushed aluminium, 14 x 10cm, 2023

Shown as part of Hypha, Church of St John, Healey, Northumberland, UK

Hypha - is a group of women artists based in Newcastle/Gateshead. Initiated in 2022 by Catherine Bertola and Claire Morgan, as a consequence of the impact of Covid, we wanted to build a supportive, generous, and critically engaged community.

Exhibiting artists: Holly Argent, Catherine Bertola, Jo Coupe, Katie Cuddon, Jennifer Douglas, Claire Morgan, Rosie Morris, Bethany Stead, Matilda Sutton, Harriet Sutcliffe, Olivia Turner with curatorial support from Gayle Meikle.





In / out / of this world


Expanded Interiors Re-Staged Commission
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2021

Expanded Interiors was an interdisciplinary research project led by Catrin Huber drawing site-specific contemporary fine art practice into a unique dialogue with ancient Roman wall paintings and architectural remains at the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/expandedinteriors/

As part of the Expanded Interiors research team, Rosie Morris was commissioned to develop her own contemporary installation, as part of Huber’s Expanded Interiors Re-Staged.