Annie Morris

Annie Morris, born in 1978, London, United Kingdom. She lives and works in London.

 

For Annie Morris, everything starts with the drawing. Shapes and colors come together as her hand contours her figures and sculptures in the making. Balance is everything, a subtle interplay of lines in which each volume must find its place.

 

Annie Morris's work is certainly that of a theoretician of the abstract, seeking the right alliances among the raw forces that are these imposing spheres or these colored lines, but more than that, it is also the work of an artist in search of happiness. Each assemblage conveys the joy of creation, the euphoria of a material that blossoms in the hands of its maker. What's more, these compositions are objects of care: "My sculptures come from a very traumatic time, and they have become comforting to me", as Annie Morris herself describes it. 

 

Ces stacks are handmade with plaster and pigmented sand. Their stockier silhouettes, composed of a few larger spheres, have a quasi-figurative feel, reminiscent of the female body and the curves of pregnancy. Morris is heir to a tradition of self-examinations of the female body as both site and symbol of intense psychological scrutiny in contemporary sculpture, in the line of Louise Bourgeois and Barbara Hepworth.

 

Morris studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris between 1997 and 2001 under Giuseppe Penone before completing her education at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2003. 2021 marked the artist’s first museum exhibition, with a solo presentation of sculptures and tapestries at Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s Weston Gallery. In 2023, she was commissioned by the Hepworth Wakefield to create a permanent installation for the West Yorkshire History Centre. She is part of major collection in Europe, United States and China such as the Long Museum, Shanghai, China; the Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China; the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France or the Perez Collection, Miami, FL, USA.