Annie Morris
Annie Morris | |
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Annie Morris studio, London, 2017 | |
| Born | Annie Morris January 16, 1978 |
| Education | Saint Martin's School of Art École des Beaux-Arts The Slade |
| Known for | Fine art, Painting, drawing, sculpture |
| Spouse | Idris Khan |
Annie Morris (born 1978) is a British artist based in London. She is best known for her Stack series, begun in 2014, comprising vertically balanced spherical forms in various colors that are precariously stacked. Constructed from carved foam and layered with plaster, sand, pigment, concrete and steel, the works are often finished in vivid ultramarine, cadmium red and other saturated colours, utilizing a painterly quality. Morris also makes large oil-stick drawings and sewn textile works derived from her drawings called “thread paintings.” The artist has shown internationally at galleries and museums and is included in over a dozen permanent collections.
Morris’s work draws on personal experience, memory and childhood imagery. She shares a studio with the artist Idris Khan.[1]
Life and career
She attended Central Saint Martin's and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under the tutelage of sculptor Giuseppe Penone,[2] then The Slade School of Fine Art, graduating from Camberwell College of Arts. She works from a studio in Stoke Newington she shares with her husband, the British artist Idris Khan. They have two children.[1]
Morris’ Stack sculptures shaped from plaster, sand, and painted with raw pigment, resemble a three-dimensional artist’s palette, originally inspired by the 1988 painting- Bed with Colour by Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies.[3] The dry, freshly painted feel of the stack’s form, is Morris’ metaphor to childbirth and fragility. She is also known for her drawings and collaborated with Sophie Dahl's first book The Man with the Dancing Eyes, 2003, published by Bloomsbury.[4]
In 2006 Morris was commissioned by Christopher Bailey, director of fashion label Burberry, to make a dress made out of her painted clothes pegs. Morris was commissioned by American architect Peter Marino to create a work for Louis Vuitton’s flagship store opened in October 2017 at Place Vendôme, Paris.[5][6]
Morris designed an Art Deco-inspired wall mural and a stained glass window installed at the Painter’s Room inside Claridge’s in London in 2022.[7][8]
In 2023, the artist was commissioned by The Hepworth Wakefield to create a permanent public sculpture, Bronze Stack 9 Viridian Green.[9]
Morris is represented by Timothy Taylor gallery (in both London and New York).[10]
Selected exhibitions
Morris has shown work internationally, including those at:
- Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China, 2023-2024[11][12]
- Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London, England, 2023-2024[13]
- Newlands House Gallery, Petworth, United Kingdom, 2023[14]
- Timothy Taylor, New York, 2023[15]
- Château La Coste, Oscar Niemeyer Pavilion, Château La Coste, Provence, France 2022[16][17][18]
- London Calling at the Palazzo Cipolla - Museo del Corso, Rome, Italy, 2022[19][20]
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, United Kingdom, 2021-2022[21][22]
- Timothy Taylor, London, England, 2021[23]
- Timothy Taylor, New York, NY, USA, 2019[24]
- The Royal Academy, London, Summer Exhibition, 2012[25]
- Baku MoMA, Azerbaijan, Merging Bridges, 2012[26]
- The New Art Gallery Walsall, England, The House of Fairytales
- Tate Gallery, St. Ives, The House of Fairytales
- The Fine Art Society, What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me
Selected Public and Private Collections
- Amore Pacific Museum of Art, KR
- ASE Foundation, Shanghai, CN
- Hotel Crillon Collection, Paris, FR
- Cranford Collection, London, UK
- The Gersh Collection, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- De Grisogono Collection, New York, NY, USA
- Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, CN
- Hearst Collection, New York, NY, USA
- Indigo Art Museum, Gujarat, IN
- Kistefos Museet, Jevnaker, NO
- Long Museum, Shanghai, CN
- Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, CN
- Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France and Shanghai, CN
- Missoni Family Collection, IT
- Modern Forms, London, UK
- Perez Collection, Miami, FL, USA
- Soho House Collection, London, UK
- Tisch Collection, New York, NY, USA
- Victoria and Warren Miro, London, UK
- University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO, USA
References
- ^ a b Nicol, Patricia (5 October 2017). "Idris Khan on his politically infused Frieze show and how he 'fell into art'". ES Magazine, London Evening Standard. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ Gen, Lynne (January 2003). "Miss Morris". Solarte Magazine. London.
- ^ Fellowes, Mary (10 February 2012). "Life Laid Bare". Vogue. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ Rachel, Cooke (2 February 2003). "They met at a fancy-dress party. But then he changed..." The Observer. London. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ Faure, Par Émilie (3 October 2017). "Michael Burke : Vendôme est maintenant, pour nous, le centre du monde". Madame Figaro: Le Figaro (in French). Paris. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ Wrigley, Tish (5 October 2017). "Louis Vuitton comes home to Place Vendôme". The Spaces. London. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
- ^ Sieracki, Jill (21 January 2022). "Anatomy of a Room: The Painter's Room at Claridge's in London". Galerie Magazine. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ "The Painter's Room: Innovative Event Space in Mayfair - Claridge's". Claridge’s. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ "Bronze Stack 9, Viridian Green". Experience Wakefield. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ Jansen, Charlotte (1 October 2019). "Annie Morris strikes a fine balance between sculpture, tapestry and drawing". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
- ^ "Exhibition / Annie Morris: Hope from a Thin Line | Fosun Foundation (Shanghai)". www.fosunfoundation.com. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
- ^ "Annie Morris". Winston Wächter Fine Art. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
- ^ "Pitzhanger - Idris Khan & Annie Morris: When Loss Makes Melodies". Pitzhanger - Idris Khan & Annie Morris: When Loss Makes Melodies. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ House, NewlandsHouse Gallery-Modern & Contemporary Art, Photography, Design | Newlands. "NewlandsHouse.Gallery - Modern & Contemporary Art, Photography, Design | Newlands House". NewlandsHouse.Gallery - Modern & Contemporary Art, Photography, Design | Newlands House. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Annie Morris | 2 November - 16 December 2023". Timothy Taylor. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ "Annie Morris · News · Château La Coste". chateau-la-coste.com. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
- ^ "Château La Coste: Annie Morris". SURFACE. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
- ^ Lloyd Smith, Harriet (7 July 2022). "Annie Morris' totemic inauguration of Château La Coste's Oscar Niemeyer Pavilion". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
- ^ "London Calling - Da David Hockney a Idris Khan". Turismo Roma. 15 March 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ "LONDON CALLING - DA DAVID HOCKNEY A IDRIS KHAN". Fondazione Terzo Pilastro Internazionale (in Italian). Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ "Annie Morris: When A Happy Thing Falls". Yorkshire Sculpture Park. 25 September 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
- ^ Lloyd-Smith, Harriet (25 August 2021). "Annie Morris' towering sculptures balance grief, hope and defiance". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
- ^ "Annie Morris | 6 - 13 October 2021". Timothy Taylor. Retrieved 12 February 2026.
- ^ "ANNIE MORRIS – Timothy Taylor". www.timothytaylor.com. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ Khan, Tabish (10 June 2012). "Art Review: Summer Exhibition @ Royal Academy". Londonist. London. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ "Azerbaijani and international artists to exhibit together at Merging Bridges at Baku MoMA". YARAT. YARAT Contemporary Art Space. 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2018.