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.