Mali Morris

biography
Mali Morris was born in North Wales and studied Fine Art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (BA) and the University of Reading (MFA). Her first major solo exhibitions were at the Serpentine Summer Show 3, London, 1977, and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1979. She has shown extensively since then in over twenty-five solo shows, and has taken part in many group exhibitions: John Moores at the Walker in Liverpool, and in London at the Whitechapel Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Hayward Gallery, and the Barbican, as well as a number overseas. She was included in Precious Things, curated by Graham Crowley, Drogheda, Ireland, 'meta -' a show and panel discussion curated by David Ryan at Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, 2009, and Tag - New London Painting, at Brown Gallery, London, in 2010.
There have been three solo shows in Tokyo, 2000, 2004 and 2005, and two at Robert Steele Gallery Project Room, New York, 2005 and 2007. Angel Row Gallery Nottingham organized a touring show in 2002-3. Poussin Gallery, London, showed Mali Morris: Work From Four Decades in Nov/Dec 2005 and Mali Morris: New Paintings in May/June 2008. A solo show will take place at The Cut , Halesworth, in May 2011. Mali Morris's work is in private and public collections worldwide, including the Arts Council England, British Council, Contemporary Arts Society, Government Art Collection, and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. In 2009, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, with the assistance of the Derek Williams Trust, purchased Angel and People, 1979. She has received awards from the Arts Council England, British Council, DAIWA Anglo-Japanese Foundation, GLAA, Elephant Trust, with Research Awards from the University of Reading and Chelsea College of Art and Design, and the Lorne Award.
		Angel and People 1979 180 x 171cm acrylic on canvas
In May 2007 she was a prizewinner at Creekside Open x 2, selected by Emma Biggs and Matthew Collings, and in 2008 was awarded the Sunny Dupree Prize the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Two paintings were selected for the RA Summer Exhibition, 2009. She was Chair of the selection panel for Jerwood Contemporary Painters 2009. Banner-backdrop, a stage-set in silk panels 5.5m x 6.5 m in, was commissioned by the Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2009.
	An interview with Tamara Yusselof appeared in Art World August/September 2008, and an essay by Peter Suchin "Mali Morris: The Intelligence of Colour" in Turps Banana Issue 7, Winter 2009. An essay by Mali Morris on Robert Welch's paintings is due to appear in Turps Banana Issue 8, Spring 2010. Mali Morris has taught and examined at many Departments of Fine Art, including the Royal College of Art, Slade School of Art, University of Reading, and Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London, where she was Senior Lecturer in Painting from 1991-2005. In March 2010 she was elected as a Member of the Royal Academy of Arts. Full c.v. available on request
Edges 2005 25 x 30 cm acrylic on canvas

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