Image credit: Colin Davidson
Contact
Email rosiemorris0@gmail.com
“Morris’ works are like reminders – places and times that feel like those we have been before, like memories of old lives that we cannot quite put our finger on.” Anneka French, ‘Close your eyes; press down on your lids’
“Morris’s work can be viewed as experiential art. Art which is located in the spiritual, art which consumes the senses to such an extent that the viewer cannot help but be delightfully absorbed by the serene experience.” Camilla Irvine-Fortesque, Corridor 8
About
Rosie Morris is a visual artist, who makes large scale installations, painting, film, photography, print, and sound, in gallery and heritage locations in the UK and internationally. Her background is making site responsive art work that explores how we experience architectural atmospheres in order to access bodily memory and feeling.
Recent work moves away from the specific histories and aesthetics of a building, exploring the body as site and shelter by creating womb-like den spaces to access emotions relating to ‘daughtering’, memory and grief. These works take the form of miniature and large scale soft sculptures, photographs, and films, resembling dens, wombs, tombs and objects emblematic of personal nostalgia, gesture, and the body cared for.
Biography
1986 b. Nottingham, UK. Lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne
2005 BTEC Diploma Art and Design Foundation Studies, Loughborough University, UK
2008 BA Hons. Fine Art, Painting, Loughborough University, UK
2010 Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Newcastle University, UK
2012 MFA, Newcastle University, UK
Selected Exhibitions
2024
GESTURES, St. John’s Church, Healey
Interlaced, group exhibition with Hypha Collective as part of Middlesbrough Art Weekender
2023
LOOP, Assemblage II: Time and Space, Gallery North Project Space, Northumbria University
Figures that Sway, site responsive community arts project in collaboration with Harriet Sutcliffe at Tynemouth Priory & Castle
Hypha, group exhibition with Hypha Collective, St. John’s Church, Healey, Northumberland
2022
Undutiful Spirit, BALTIC Artist Archive Residency, collaborative project with artist Harriet Sutcliffe and curator Gayle Meikle.
2021
Town Hall Meeting of the Air, BALTIC 39, Newcastle, UK, ‘Unfolding Architecture’ collaborative film made with Taryn Edmonds, included as part of the exhibition by Kate Liston and Tess Denman-Cleaver
BALTIC Open Submission, BALTIC, Gateshead, UK
2018
Walls, 36 Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2017
Notes on Navigating Space, Collaboration with Taryn Edmonds, Artlacuna, London
2016
Circles are Slices of Spheres, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
COME TO DUST, Generator Projects, Dundee, UK
2015
Sheffield Artists Book Prize, Sheffield, UK
Proyector International Video Art Festival, Quinta del Sordo, Madrid, Spain
55 Westgate Road // Dreamers, 55-57 Westgate Road, site specific film installation with corresponding publication, Newcastle, UK
Beyond the Goldmine Standard, RPM Records, Newcastle, site specific project curated by Matt Hearn as part of Baltic 39 exhibition, The Curves of the Needle, to coincide with Record Store Day
2014
Monologue, 36 Lime Street Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Shifting Dimensions, site specific outdoor commission as part of Art, Cities & Landscape Festival, 2014, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Amiens, France
Phase, Castle Keep, collaborative exhibition with sound artist Sam Grant, Newcastle, UK
2013
ArtHouses, Whitley Bay Film Festival, Whitley Bay, UK
2012
Set & Setting, Connecting Principle, Newcastle University, UK
Newcastle University Master of Fine Art Show, UK
Transition, solo show, Long Gallery, Newcastle University, UK
2011
Newcastle University Master of Fine Art Interim Show, UK
Platform Emergent, Vyner Street Gallery, London, UK
Reviews
Close your eyes; press down on your lids, text on In / out / of this world , by Anneka French
Expanded Interiors: Re-Staged, review in Corridor 8 by Grace Denton
Aesthetica online interview for Circles are Slices of Spheres
Review by Camilla Irvine-Fortescue of Circles are Slices of Spheres in Corridor8
Publications
2020 a-n 40th Anniversary Issue 2 - Guest co-edited with Catherine Bertola
2019 Artist/Mum - publication
Collections
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Projects, Awards & Residencies
2021 Guest co-edited Artist Newsletter’s 40th Anniversary 1990’s Issue 2 with Catherine Bertola, providing a platform for women artists and writers to highlight less visible, marginalised and precarious practices.
2020 Artist/Mum project, publication featuring interview extracts with 10 artists who are also mums
2017-19 Research Assistant on ‘Expanded Interiors’ at Newcastle University
2017 Residency at ArtLacuna Project Space, London
2016 Awarded Grants for the Arts from Arts Council England for Circles are Slices of Spheres at Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2013-2014 Awarded Grants for the Arts from Arts Council England for Research and Development and exhibition at Castle Keep, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2013 Shortlisted for Warrick Stafford Research Fellowship, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2013 Shortlisted for The Abbey Painting Scholarship, British School at Rome
2012-2013 Selected for mentoring scheme with artist Nadia Hebson, Newcastle
2012 Research visit to Japan
Teaching & Talks
2020-2023 Lecturer in Fine Art (4 year Scholarship), Newcastle University
2021 Expanded Interiors Re-Stage: an artist talk with Catrin Huber and Rosie Morris
2021 Harsh Light: Rosie Morris & Fiona Larkin, Bloc Projects
2020 Artist/Mum presentation as part of Performance and Wellbeing Symposium, University of Brighton, alongside Fiona Larkin, Catherine Bertola, Laura Harrington and Kate Liston
2017 Artist Talk, Northumbria University
2016-18 Visiting artist lecturer for Newcastle University School of Architecture
2015 Artist Talk, MFA, Newcastle University
2014 Artist Talk, London College of Garden Design, Regents College, London
2011-2013 Drawing Tutor at Newcastle University on an occasional basis for Fine Art and Architecture Departments