The Royal Academy of Arts will present a collection of paintings by the recently elected Royal Academician Mali Morris. On view September 24 – 1 December 2010.
The works in the exhibition will illustrate the development of her small scale paintings on both canvas and paper; the show will offer an insight into how her work has developed over the past decade. Mali Morris is best known for her large scale canvases and this exhibition has injected a sense of exploration into her art.
Morris sees these paintings as being very distinct from her other better known works: “I started working on smaller canvases 15 years ago, moving towards a different way of making paintings. Colour relationships, more compressed and sparse than in the larger works, seemed to construct a new kind of light, and I liked the intimacy of scale. In all of these paintings colour was deliberately buried, so that it could be re-discovered through a kind of improvised choreography.”
Mali Morris was born in North Wales, and studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and the University of Reading. She has shown nationally and internationally since the late 1970s, and is represented in the collections of the Arts Council, British Council, Contemporary Art Society, Government Art Collection, National Museum Cardiff, and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. She has also taught Fine Art and was Senior Lecturer in Painting at Chelsea College of Art and Design until 2005. Mali Morris was elected as a Royal Academician in May 2010.
Works in the exhibition will be available for sale.
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