Annie Morris

British artist Annie Morris combines obsessive drawing and ready-made objects. Although she is primarily known for her colorful Stack sculptures, she is not contained to any single medium and has worked with various materials from clothes pins to textiles, exploring the geometries of line and grid. Her Stack sculptures resemble towers of balancing plaster spheres, each painted in vibrant hues such as ultramarine and ochre. This color palette is taken from the 1988 painting Bed with Colour by Antoni Tàpies, while the round shapes reference the womb and Morris’s personal experience with pregnancy and miscarriage.

Born in 1978 in London, where she continues to live and work, Morris studied art in France as well as in Great Britain. She received an award for her achievements in drawing from the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 2003, she began to receive attention as an illustrator after collaborating with Sophie Dahl, the granddaughter of Roald Dahl, on the book Man with the Dancing Eyes. Since then, Morris has received international acclaim for her drawings, sculptures, paintings and tapestries. She has named Paul Klee and Robert Rauschenberg as influences, and she also reinterprets Minimalist sculptors such as Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt. 

-       Stack 7, Ultramarine Blue, 2017, Foam core, pigment, metal, concrete, plaster and sand, 73 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (187 x 19.5 x 19.5 cm), representative of the artist’s widely known sculptures

-       Grid 18, Cobalt Turquoise, 2019, Steel, thread and canvas, 78 7/10 x 44 1/10 inches (200 x 112 cm), representative of the artist’s colorful textile grids