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BIOGRAPHY Morwenna Morrison's predominantly oil on canvas works draw influence from a carefully curated collage of archival images. Morrison explains her work as being ‘an analysis of today’s social, psychological and political issues, set within historical context’.

Taking as a base the salubrious works of historical landscape painting, the artist interweaves contemporary consumerist images into her painting. In doing so, the viewer is invited to nostalgically embrace the cultural mythos of the classical, neo-classical or Romantic. Morrison establishes a sort of narrative continuum between a world of commercial flight and the colonial verandas of the 19th century (‘n Infinite Summer), presenting her new historicism in beautiful, aesthetic calmness.

Morwenna Morrison is based in Penzance. A graduate of the Exeter College of Art and Design’s Fine Art programme (1988), she has exhibited extensively across the UK as both a solo artist and a contributor to group shows.

EDUCATION 1985-1988 Exeter College of Art and Design, BA (Hons) Fine Art

1984-1985 Falmouth Art College, foundation

RESIDENCY 2014 Porthmeor Studios, Tate St Ives

2012 Back Lane West, Redruth

CURATION 2014 Co-curated Flux, The Heseltine Gallery, Truro

RECENT 2018 GROUPS Lynn Painter Stainers competition, Mall Galleris The Eternal Return, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh Just Putting it Out There, James Freeman Gallery, London

EXHIBITIONS 2017 The Dark Tide, Arusha Gallery AAF Hampstead, Arusha The Amorist, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh Newlyn Society of Artists, ‘Borders’, Tremenheere Gallery London Art Fair, Arusha Gallery

2016 Mixed show, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh Mixed show, Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth

AAF, Manchester, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh AAF Battersea, Coombe Gallery Side by Side, Lux, Cinestar, Backlane West, Redruth

2015 Newlyn Society of Artists ‘All Wrapped Up’, Salthouse Gallery The Clubhouse, The Exchange, Penzance Film and Light in Redruth, CMR Redruth A Game of Consequences, The Exchange Penzance Newlyn Society of Artists, ‘NSA, 293, Penwith Gallery Walking into Memory, Penzance Misbehaviour, The Art Pavilion, Mile End, London Mixed Show, Plumbline and Orchard Gallery, St Ives Mixed Show, Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance

2014 ‘The Threadneedle Prize’ The Mall Galleries, London Newlyn Society of Artist, ‘Critics Choice, Penzance Gallery Inland Arts Festival, CMR, Redruth Penzance – St Ives, Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance installation Misbehaviour CMR, Redruth Flux, The Heseltine Gallery, Truro Mixed show, Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance Mixed show, Plumbline and Orchard, St Ives

2013 Drawing the Line, Millenium, St Ives Works on Paper, Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance The Art of Writing, CMR, Camborne Mixed show,Bucca Gallery, Newlyn Mixed show, Plumbline and Orchard Gallery, St Ives Fiat Lux, TAaP, Cornwall Art Biennale, Truro Limbo, Leth, Cornwall Art Biennale, Truro March Fourth, CMR, Redruth Sketch Book Show, Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance

2012 Christmas Crackers, NSA mixed show, Penzance Winter Exhibition, Cornwall Contemporary, Penzance Mixed show, Bucca Gallery, Newlyn Summer exhibition, Leth Office, Newlyn Shortlisted for the RA Summer Show Visions of Our Life, The Underdog Gallery, London New Visions, CMR Gallery, Redruth

PAGE 2 2011 Shortlisted for the National Art Competition RWA 159 Open Mixed winter exhibition Cornwall Contemporary

2010 Penny Macbeth Gallery, Penryn Over the Moon Gallery, St Agnes

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