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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. Recent
group shows include: Precious Things, Drogheda, Ireland, 2008,
'meta -' Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, 2009, Tag - New London
Painting, Brown Gallery, London, 2010, Fade Away, Transition
Gallery, London, 2010, and Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne,
2011, Uncaught Hares Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London 2011,
and Finger, Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London, 2012.
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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 2005 and Mali
Morris: New Paintings in 2008. Mali Morris: Paintings on Canvas
and Paper was in the Sir Hugh Casson Room for Friends, Royal
Academy, London, 2010, at The Cut, Halesworth in 2011, and
at Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno in 2012.
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.
Her 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.
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Angel and People 1979
180 x 171cm
acrylic on canvas
Purchased 2009 by Amgueddfa Cymru National
Museum Wales
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In May 2007 she was a prizewinner at Creekside Open x 2,
and was awarded the Sunny Dupree Prize at the Royal Academy
Summer Exhibition 2008. She was Chair of the selection panel
for Jerwood Contemporary Painters in 2009, and a Selector/Mentor
for Jerwood Painting Fellowships, 2012-13.
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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
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Edges
2005
25 x 30 cm
acrylic on canvas
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