ANNE Morrison is the King Island Gallery’s artist in residence during July.
Born in Scotland, Anne studied at The Glasgow School of Art and The Royal College of Art in London, UK.
She came to Australia in 1994 to undertake a one-year Scottish Arts Council Arts Residency, followed by 3 more years on a Commonwealth Scholarship based at The School of Art in Hobart.
After many years of travelling, living in different countries and being inspired by different cultures and landscapes, Anne settled in Forth on the North-West coast of Tasmania.
Her work takes inspiration from the natural environment and the intricate networks, processes and patterns found in nature.
She re-interprets what she encounters on her wanderings in the landscape in large-scale paintings, often inspired by; corals, sea sponges, seaweeds, nests, foliage, leaves, branches, mosses, lichens, as well as the less visible diatoms and plankton found within our waterways.
Anne enjoys experimenting with a variety of fluid painting processes, and ways of applying, dispersing and removing paint to evoke a landscape in flux— never static but in a continual process of evolving and dissolving.
Anne is represented by Despard Gallery in Hobart and her 2023 solo exhibition ‘Spin-Drift’ can be accessed online https:// http://www.despard-gallery.com. au/anne-morrison-spin-drift/ While here, Anne will be hosting two painting workshops on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th July 2024.
Register your interest in attending one or both of the workshops by emailing gallery@kingisland.tas.gov. au or by contacting Taylor on 0493 661816.
King Island Gallery Artist in Residence Anne Morrison with her complex, large scale paintings at Despard Gallery Hobart.