Mali Morris

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Mali Morris

Mali Morris was born in 1945 in North Wales, and studied at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Reading. Her breakthrough solo exhibitions were a Serpentine Summer Show in 1977, and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, in 1979. She has since had numerous solo shows in Britain, including two at Nicola Jacobs Gallery, one at Kapil Jariwala, and five at Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery. In 2001-02 the Angel Row Gallery in Nottingham organised a touring show. Her work has been included in many group shows, notably the John Moores, Liverpool; the Hayward Annual; and the Whitechapel Open.

Mali Morris has received several awards, and her work is in many public, private and corporate collections, including the Arts Council, the British Council , the Contemporary Arts Society, The Government Art Collection, and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. She has recently shown regularly in New York and Tokyo, and her work is now internationally recognised as being of consistently high quality, and has been praised by many critics for its eloquence and lucidity. The intelligent economy of form and clarity of colour in her work, along with a refreshingly open-minded approach to the possibilities of painting, has established Mali Morris as one of the most enjoyable abstract painters working now.