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2020vision Merchants Connected ArchivesNeil Morris - November/December 2010
PRESS RELEASE:
The Vitreum at Merchant Taylors’ Girls’ School follows the success of its “Must See” (LDP) Liverpool Life exhibition with a large scale show by Merseyside’s own Picasso, Neil Morris.
Neil Morris is the Reader in Contemporary Printmaking at Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, and has been involved in collaborative printmaking practices for over 25 years. He has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and is the co-founder of ‘Eight Days a Week” the Liverpool/Cologne Cultural Exchange. He has recently been Printmaker in Residence at the Kolner Graphikwerkstatt, Cologne, Germany, Bluecoat Print Workshop, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, Taller 72, Lima, Peru and Artist in Residence as part of the TUPAC Residencias Programme, Lima, Peru.
This exhibition covers thirty years of innovative image making with silk screen and other print processes.
Working in the tradition of the great expressionist artists such as Rouault, Beckmann & Guston, Neil Morris has developed a personal mythology, creating characters who play out their roles in a tragic comedy for our times.
Neil said: “I have been involved with Printmaking now for over 30 years and I can honestly say I adore everything about it – the smells and sounds of inks being mixed, the lively atmosphere and etiquette of a busy print room, learning from others who know more magical secrets about thinking creatively than I do, the happy accident and the incomparable beauty of ink on paper. Early in my career a colleague remarked to me that “you can always spot a printmaker in any exhibition – they will be the one trying to look around the back of the painting to work out how it’s been fixed to the wall”. This exhibition is a small selection of some of my prints from the past 25 years made with this inquisitive nature for process and making.”The Neil Morris exhibition is on from 15th November – 15th December 2010 8.30am – 4pm viewing by appointment only please call Mrs S Barrington on 0151 932 2414.
