The artists

Anne Morrison

Anne's collaboration is with scientist Caroline Sutton.

As an artist my interest in working with the landscape developed originally in response to my experiences of both an intimate and distant perspective of the Australian landscape. Travel to and across remote and isolated environments, observing patterns and processes within nature informed my work from 1994 onwards.

I sought methods to evoke ones heightened sensory experiences within these remote environments, through an exploration of innovative fluid painting processes. The paintings represented in the exhibition The Sentient Body were fluid, dynamic and rhythmical (large-scale) works, evoking both the body and land.

"When one moves through the landscape it is not merely a particular view one remembers, but a complex unfolding of experiences and sensations that occur over a period of time." Anne Morrison

More recently my work has developed from my experience of nature within city landscapes. The little pockets of green spaces found within cities, particularly in Hobart has led to a new body of paintings in progress, called the ‘city grasslands’, (a working title). This work is an exploration of delicate and fragile organic forms. One series has evolved by developing imagery from the dandelion flower as is it reaches its seeding stage. These works are familiar yet abstracted landscapes, poetic and meditative in nature. The paintings exist between two possible worlds, that of the microscopic and of the macroscopic. A tiny flower in the process of seeding, delicate, fragile, yet beautiful, triggering the potential for new growth, new life, could also be interpreted as a starburst of activity within another world or context.

Artists Biography

Anne Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1966, and currently lives and works in Hobart. She is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art, the Royal College of Art London and completed a Phd at The University of Tasmania in 1999. Exhibitions include The Sentient Body, Plimsoll Gallery Hobart, Zero Horizon Cast Gallery Hobart , Excursive Sight 2, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, 1999, Intermediate Ground, The Bond Store, Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum, The Continuing Tradition, Glasgow School of Art, 1997, Liquid Voices, Plimsoll Gallery 1995, Artist of The Week, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Foyer gallery, Canberra School of Art, 1994.In 1988 Anne won The Elizabeth Greenshields Award, The Ensign Award RCA and The British Institution Fund 1990, Scottish Arts Council and Grampian Regional Council Artist-in-Residence, Northfield Academy, Aberdeen, One Year Australian Arts Residency in 1994, The Commonwealth Scholarship in 1995, The Scottish Arts Council Small Assistance Grant, 1999, Scotlands Year of The Artist, residency 2000.

Collections include Scottish Arts Council, Royal College of Art, Scottish Arts Council, Aberdeen Hospital