Mali Morris RA: On Paper
28 March - 4 August 2019
The Tennant Gallery, Burlington House, Piccadilly
Daily 10am – 6pm
Friday 10am – 10pm
Please note, Burlington House will be closed to the public on Tuesday 4 June.
Free
Friends of the RA go free
With 23 works on paper from across the artist's career, this free display explores the vibrant and abstract paintings of Royal Academician Mali Morris.
Royal Academician Mali Morris has selected 23 of her works on paper for this exhibition. They are presented in three groups, from different periods of her career.
There are three plein air paintings in watercolour, made in Cyprus and Canada, from the late 1980s. These were never intended as studies for her abstract paintings, but their rhythmic drawing and luminosity is echoed in some of her larger paintings on canvas from that time.
Eight vertical works opposite the entrance to the gallery are from the series Edge of a Portrait, from the 1990s, in which Morris explored her fascination with the pictorial structures of profile portraits from the Italian Renaissance.
Lastly, there is a group of 12 works in acrylic from around 2000, when Morris embarked on a search for different ways of structuring colour – layering and excavating, rather than composing laterally. It was the beginning of the most radical and original phase of her work, which continues her preoccupation with the expressive possibilities of abstract painting, drawing on many sources but constantly exploring how colour can structure light and space.
The display will be accompanied by a gallery guide written by the author and poet, Martha Kapos.
Daily 10am – 6pm
Friday 10am – 10pm
Please note, Burlington House will be closed to the public on Tuesday 4 June.
Free
Friends of the RA go free
Mali Morris RA Selects
Timed to coincide with her Tennant Gallery show, the artist has also selected a variety of works from the RA Collection on the theme of "immediacy", in a cabinet display within our Collection Gallery. Searching for examples of directness of handling and expression, Morris has chosen oil studies by Constable, pencil drawings by Turner and Gainsborough, alongside commonplace examples of studio life, such as doodles, shopping lists, painting tools and materials.
The displays are also accompanied by the first monograph to present the full range of Mali Morris’s work, entitled Mali Morris: Painting, which will be published by the Royal Academy in March 2019.
Large-print guide
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