Annie Morris (born 1978) is a British artist based in

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. Morris’ work draws inspiration from her own life experience, using painting, drawing and sculpture. She is best known for pieces that combine obsessive drawing and ready-made sculptures.

Life and career

She attended Central Saint Martin's and studied at the

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, Paris, under the tutelage of sculptor

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, then The Slade School of Fine Art, graduating from

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. She works from a studio in

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she shares with her husband, the British artist Idris Khan. They have two children. 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

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. 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

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's first book ''The Man with the Dancing Eyes'', 2003, published by

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. In 2006 Morris was commissioned by Christopher Bailey, director of fashion label

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, to make a dress made out of her painted clothes pegs. Morris was commissioned by American architect

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to create a work for

Louis Vuitton Louis Vuitton Malletier SAS, commonly known as Louis Vuitton (, ), is a French Luxury goods, luxury fashion house and company founded in 1854 by Louis Vuitton (designer), Louis Vuitton. The label's LV monogram appears on most of its products, ...

’s flagship store opened in October 2017 at Place Vendôme, Paris.

Selected exhibitions

Morris has shown work internationally, including those at: *Timothy Taylor, New York, NY, USA, 2019 * The Royal Academy, London, Summer Exhibition, 2012 * Baku MoMA, Azerbaijan, Merging Bridges, 2012 *

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, England, The House of Fairytales *

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, St. Ives, The House of Fairytales * The Fine Art Society, What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me

References

External links

Artist's official websiteAnnie Morris at Winston Wachter, New York

Annie Morris at Winston Wachter, Seattle

Annie Morris at Louisa Guinness Gallery, London
{{DEFAULTSORT:Morris, Annie 1978 births Living people 21st-century British sculptors 21st-century English women artists Alumni of Camberwell College of Arts English contemporary artists British feminist artists English women sculptors Sculptors from London 21st-century British women sculptors