Julia Morison
glazed stoneware
330 x 240 mm
Glazed stoneware and porcelain, paint (three parts)
295 x 250 x 180 mm
Glazed stoneware and porcelain, oxidised iron filings, copper wire
300 x 230 x 250 mm
acrylic on canvas board
320 x 275 mm
acrylic on canvas board
320 x 275 mm
oil on polyurethane board
1290 x 1080 mm
oil on polyurethane board
1290 x 1080 mm
Gesso, acrylic and lacquer on aluminium/polyurethane laminate.
Finished with synthetic wax.
2270 x 2270 mm
Gesso, acrylic and lacquer on aluminium/polyurethane laminate.
Finished with synthetic wax.
900 x 2452 mm
acrylic and gesso on aluminium polyurethane laminate
Gesso, acrylic and lacquer on aluminium/polyurethane laminate. Finished with synthetic wax
Gesso, acrylic and lacquer on aluminium/polyurethane laminate. Finished with synthetic wax
plaster, gesso & frame
340 x 255 x 75mm
plaster, graphite, horse hair and fake hair
350 x 165 x 65mm
plaster & frame
250 x 130 x 15mm
plaster, horse hair & frame
1880 x 930 x 80mm
Intaglio print
500 x 360mm
edition 20
Intaglio print
500 x 360mm
edition 20
Intaglio print
500 x 360mm
edition 20
Intaglio print
500 x 360mm
edition 20
metal cage & stand, melted shopping bags, glass & rubber
1420 x 620 x 370 mm
steel and mixed media
600 x 140 x 500 mm
steel and mixed media
550 x 150 x 340 mm
steel and mixed media
550 x 400 x 450 mm
steel and mixed media
700 x 500 x 500 mm
acrylic in synthetic and natural sponge
330 x 310 x 80 mm
acrylic paint, synthetic sponge, rubber
940 x 500 x 120 mm
acrylic paint, synthetic sponge, rubber
inks and acrylic on canvas
1200 x 1000 mm
inks and acrylic on canvas
1200 x 1000 mm
inks and acrylic on canvas
1200 x 1000 mm
inks and acrylic on canvas
1200 x 1000 mm
inks and acrylic on canvas
1200 x 1000 mm
acrylic and ink on polyurethane board
each 180 x 180 mm
mixed media on four panels
each 180 x 180 mm
mixed media on laminate
each 900 x 600 mm
mixed media on laminate
600 x 900 mm
mixed media on pressed polyurethane
600 x 900 mm
mixed media on pressed polyurethane
600 x 900 mm
mixed media on laminate
900 x 600 mm
2400 x 2400mm
acrylic and lacquer on aluminium/polyurethane laminate.
Laser jet print, Indian ink wash, gesso, aluminium/polyurethane laminate
each panel
600 x 800mm
Artist in Residence: July – September 2010
Julia Morison (b. Pahiatua, Aotearoa New Zealand) is based in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her extensive studio practice encompasses a variety of media, from painting and photography to sculpture and installation. A roving intellectual spirit, throughout her esteemed career Morison has experimented with diverse approaches to the mediums she works in to create visual and sculptural systems that explore numinous worlds. Morison is perhaps best known for her formal abstract paintings in which geometry, symbology and biology are combined to shape graphic worlds finely balanced between the sacred and profane.
Morison has exhibited extensively in public and private galleries throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. In 1988 Morison was awarded the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship and in 1990 the Moet & Chandon fellowship and art residency in Epernay, France where she continued to live and work until her return to Christchurch in 1999. In 2005 she received an Arts Foundation Laureate award and in 2006, Julia Morison: a loop around a loop, an important survey of her work, selected by Justin Paton and Felicity Milburn, was presented in Christchurch Art Gallery and Dunedin Public Art Gallery. In 2010 she was included in the Biennale Of Sydney, with a major work installed at the Sydney Opera House. Morison has completed several major public artworks including Wooorm/Ouroborus, Dunedin Botanical Gardens, Dunedin (2013) and Tree Houses for Swamp Dwellers, Christchurch (2013). Her work is held in all major public collections throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. Recent exhibitions include Head[case], Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch (2019), The River Lie, Suter Gallery, Nelson (2017) and Spirit Level, Yellow House Gallery Sydney (2016).