Annie Morris

Annie Morris (b.1978, London, UK, lives and works in London) is renowned for her colourful sculptural pieces, these totemic ‘Stack’ sculptures appear to defy gravity, reaching majestically for the sky. Sometimes formed from coloured plaster and sand, at other times cast in bronze, these softly rounded, feminine shapes both arrest and delight the viewer. The spheres appear to hover above the floor on plinths on which they rest, forever threatening to topple over—a nod to both the miracle of life and its precarity. Morris’s work is paradoxical in its shades of subtlety and boldness and the artist carefully but apparently unconsciously succeeds in walking the tightrope between the two.

In addition to her ‘Stack’ series, Morris explores the feminine body in her drawing-like tapestries and linear figural sculptures, as well as in abstract paintings like her voluptuously gestural, allover ‘Face’ series. These works signal the myriad ways of inhabiting the female body.

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.

-Jane Neal