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Born: 5 February, 1945, Caernarfon, North Wales, UK
Category of Membership: Painter
Elected: 16 March 2010
Mali Morris RA, 'Flotilla', 2007. Acrylic. Photo: John Bodkin/DawkinsColour Mali Morris was born in North Wales and studied at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, BA (1963-68) and the University of Reading, MFA (1968–1970).
Her concentrated compositions engage the viewer in the contemplation of pure abstraction. She configures colours and shapes in unexpected relationships and uses controlled brushstrokes to create luminous effects.
Her first major solo exhibitions were at the Serpentine Summer Show 3, 1977 and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1979. Since then she has shown extensively in many solo and group exhibitions: Whitechapel Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Hayward Gallery, the Barbican and John Moores, Liverpool, as well as overseas.
She has received awards from the Arts Council, British Council, DAIWA Anglo-Japanese Foundation, GLAA, Elephant Trust and the Sunny Dupree Family Award, Summer Exhibition 2009
Read an interview with Mali Morris in RA Magazine Autumn 2012
Recent Solo Shows
2012 Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
Eagle Gallery, London
2010 The Cut Gallery, Halesworth, Suffolk
Royal Academy of Arts, London
2008 Mali Morris: New Paintings, Poussin Gallery, London
2005 and 2007: Robert Steele Gallery Project Room, New York
2005 Mali Morris: Work From Four Decades, Poussin Gallery, London
2002-3 Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, touring show
2000, 2004, and 2005 in Tokyo, Japan
Recent Group Shows
2014 Selector, John Moores Painting Prize China
2013 Without an Edge there is no Middle, Pluspace, Coventry
Painting Past Present: A Painters Craft, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Pop and Abstract, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Panel Paintings, Eagle Gallery, London
2012 Double Vision, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London New Possibilities: Abstract Paintings from the 70s, Piper Gallery, London
Finger, Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London
Double Vision, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London New Possibilities: Abstract Paintings from the 70s, Piper Gallery, London
Pressure Drop and Hoopla, Berwick Watchtower, Berwick upon Tweed
2011 Uncaught Hares, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London
2010 Tag – New London Painting, Brown Gallery, London
Transition Gallery, London
2009 meta -, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
2008 Precious Things, Drogheda, Ireland
2014 Selector, John Moores Painting Prize China
2012-13 Selector/Mentor for Jerwood Painting Fellowships
2009 Chair of the selection panel for Jerwood Contemporary Painters
Selected Collections
Arts Council England
British Council
Contemporary Arts Society
Government Art Collection
National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
