Simon Morley

simon morley

Born 1958 in Eastbourne, UK.
Lives and works in UK, France and South Korea.

Simon Morley is represented by Art First, London and Song Art Gallery, Seoul

Group Exhibitions
1999
‘Chora’, 30 Underwood Street Gallery, London (artist/co-curator)

‘Six Young British Artists’, Gallerie Axel Thieme, Darmstadt, Germany

‘The Discerning Eye’ (invited by Charlotte Mullins), Mall Gallery, London

‘Hub’, (curated by Above/Below), Bishopsgate, London

‘Ninenineninetynine’, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery. London

‘Wunderkammer’, 13 Laburnum Lodge, London

‘After Jackson Pollock’, Sali Gia Gallery, London (artist/curator)

‘Networking’. P-House, Tokyo, Japan

Public Art Commission, Camden Council/Heritage Lottery Fund, St.George’s Gardens, London, (unrealised)

Group Exhibitions
1998
‘A State of Affairs’, Arthur R. Rose, London

‘Cluster Bomb’, Morrison-Judd Gallery, London

‘The Bible of Networking’, Sali Gia Gallery, London

‘Souvenirs’, (curated by Above/Below), Museum Street, London

‘Absolut Secret’, Royal College of Art, London

Group Exhibitions
2000
‘9,8m/s2’, Zero Arte Contemporanea, Piacenza, Italy

‘Art Futures’, Contemporary Art Society, Barbican, London

Occupation Studios Fund Raiser, Platform Gallery, London

‘The Wreck of Hope’, The Nunnery Gallery, London, (artist/co-curator)

‘Chora’, Abbot Hall, Kendal
South Hill Park, Bracknell
Hotbath Gallery, Bath

Group Exhibitions
2001
‘Artmart’, 291 Gallery, London

EAST International, Norwich (selected by Mary Kelly and Peter Wollen)

‘Wax’, Auction in aid of Cancer Research

‘Closer Still’, (Southern Arts Touring Show) Winchester School of Art
Artsway, Sway

Group Exhibitions
2002
‘Fluent: Painting and Words’, Camberwell Art School Gallery, London

‘Red Spy’, Fortezza della Brunella, Aulla, Italy

‘La Forma delle Forme’, Villa Braghieri-Castel, Modena, Italy

‘New Religious Art’, Henry Peacock Gallery, London

The Open, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool

‘Bibliomania’ (edited by Simon Morris), book-launch at Printed Matter, New York

‘Fabric’ Abbott Hall, Kendal

‘Private Views’, London Print Studio

Herbert Read Gallery, KIAD, Canterbury

‘showhouse’, PM House and Gallery, London

‘East Wing No. 5’, Courtauld Institute, London

Group Exhibitions
2003
The Book Show’, (curator/exhibitor), Nunnery Gallery, London

‘A…parole’, Cortili di Casa Sanna-Meloni, Berchidda, Sardinia, as part of ‘Del Segno, Del Suona e della Parola, PAV

‘The Unfortunate Tourist of Helvellyn and his Faithful Dog’, (exhibition conception and design)

‘The Cover Theory’, Ex-Centrale Electrica, Piacenza, Italy (curated by Mario Sinaldi)

2002/3
Sumptuous’, Ex Macelli Pubblici, Prato, Italy (curated by Palazzo delle Papesse Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Siena)

‘L’Ultima Cena’’, Castello del’Ovo, Napoli, Italy (curated by Massimo Sgroi)

Group Exhibitions
2004
Abbey Fellowship Award Exhibition, British School in Rome

‘’The Cripples: After L.S. Lowry’, Nunnery Gallery, London

‘The Book Show’, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere

Reviews and Publications
1999
‘Chora’, Art Press (France), Winter 1999
‘Chora’, Charlotte Mullins, Independent on Sunday, 3/10/99
‘Chora’, Polly Staples, Time Out, 13/10/99
‘Chora’, Hugh Stoddard, Contemporary Visual Arts, Winter 1999
‘Chora’, Louisa Buck, Art Newspaper, 10/99
‘Dereliction Chic’, Mark Gisbourne and ‘London Independents’, Contemporary Visual Arts,
‘After Jackson Pollock’, Preview, Contemporary Visual Arts, No 23
‘After Jackson Pollock’, Preview by Louisa Buck, Art Newspaper, April 1999

Reviews and Publications
2000
‘The Collected Works of George Orwell’, Eugene Tan, Art Review, Dec.
‘The Collected Works of George Orwell’ Catalogue Essay by Neal Brown
‘The Wreck of Hope’, Izi Glover, Time Out, 5/4/00
‘The Wreck of Hope’, Neal Brown, Independent on Sunday, 26/3/00
‘The Wreck of Hope’, Michael Wilson, Art Monthly, May 2000
‘’The Wreck of Hope’, Artist Newsletter, May 2000
‘The Wreck of Hope’, Studio (Israel), May, 2000
www.wreckofhope.com (exhibition website)
‘Chora’, Artist Newsletter, June 2000
‘Chora’, Habitat Art Newsletter, February 2000
‘Chora’, Vision, Abbot Hall, Spring 2000

Reviews and Publications
2001
‘Closer’, Catalogue, with essay by Beth Harland
‘The Collected Works of George Orwell’, Gianni Romano, postmediamagazine,com.
‘The Collected Works of George Orwell’, Duncan McLaren, Independent on
Sunday, 7 January

Reviews and Publications
2002
‘Italian Holiday,’ review, Tema Celeste, Autumn
‘Italian Holiday’, catalogue, with essays by Alain de Botton, Neal Brown and Chiara Guidi
‘Italian Holiday’, Preview, ‘The Art Newspaper’, June
New Religious Art’, Sally O’Reilly, Modern Painters, Autumn
‘New Religious Art’, Artworks, ITV Television, 29th April
‘New Religious Art’, Sally 0’Reilly, Time Out, April 24
‘Private Views’, catalogue edited by Paul O’Neil
‘Private Views’, Helen Sumpter, Evening Standard, April 12th
‘Bibliomania’, book project edited by Simon Morris
‘showhouse’, Art Review, February
‘Showhouse’, Martin Coomber, Time Out, 20 February

Reviews and Publications
2003
‘The Life of Things’, Sarah Cochran, Modern Painters, Autumn
‘The Life of Things’, Eugene Tan, Contemporary, October-November
‘The Unfortunate Tourist’, BBC,’Northwest Tonight’, 6th February
‘The Unfortunate Tourist’, Border TV, ‘Look Around’, 17th February
‘The Unfortunate Tourist, The Independent, 8th February
‘Pet Rescue (The Unfortunate Tourist), Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 15th
March

Public Art Projects
1998
Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London(Commission from Above/Below)

1999
St. George’s Cemetery, Bloomsbury, London (unrealised), (Commissioned by Camden Council)

2000
Brick Lane, London, (Commissioned by Cityside Development)

2001
Church Street Redevelopment Project, Reading (shortlisted), (Commissioned by CAS and Reading City Council)

Awards and Residencies
2004
Abbey Fellowship in Painting, The British School in Rome

2003
Artist-in-Residence,The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria

Arts Council Grant for ‘The Book Show’ catalogue ‘The Unfortunate Tourist of Helvellyn and his Faithful Dog’ short-listed for the Art Newspaper/AXA Catalogue of the Year Award

Utopia Press Publications
1999
‘The Collected Works of George Orwell and other Paintings’ (in association with Percy Miller Gallery)

2002
‘Italian Holiday’ (in association with Zero Gallery)

2003
‘The Unfortunate Tourist of Helvellyn and his Faithful Dog’ (in association with the Wordsworth Trust)

‘The Life of Things’, with Jack Mapanje and Robert Woof (in association with the Wordsworth Trust)

‘The Book Show’, with essays by Susan Johanknecht and Simon Morley

Commentaries on Own Work
‘The Narratives of Social Space’, Public Art Journal, Vol. 1 No.2 Oct.1999, p.22-23

‘Writing on the Wall: Words in Modern Art’, The Collected Works of George Orwell, Catalogue, 2000.

Books
Co-author, ‘Twentieth Century Art Book’, Phaidon, 1996

‘William Scott’, Merrill Holberton/Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1998

‘Writing on the Wall: Word and Image in Modern Art’, Thames and Hudson and California University Press

Criticism and Writings (1989-2001)
Reviews have appeared in the following magazines and periodicals:
The Burlington, The Times Literary Supplement, Art Monthly, Untitled, Contemporary Visual Art, Tema Celeste (London Editor 1990-92), The Independent on Sunday.

Selected Feature Articles
‘A Difference’, The New Modernism: Deconstructive Tendencies in Modern Art, in Art and Design, Vol.4 No 3-4, 1988, pp. 26–34

‘What is Classicism’, The Classical Sensibility in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, in Art and Design, Vol. 4 No. 5-6, 1988, p.61-65

‘Barcelona!: Antoni Tàpies’, Art Monthly, 9.1992, p.9-11

‘Robert Ryman’, Art Monthly, 3 1993, p.10-12

‘Merz: Kurt Schwitters’, Art Monthly, 2. 1995, p. 13-15

‘De Kooning:Then and Now’, Art Monthly, 3 1995, p.6-9

‘Brancusi’, Art Monthly, 8-9 1995, p.16-19 (selected for Sirs Renaissance Database)

Nolde’s Nationalism’, Art Monthly 12-1, 1995-6, p.7-9

‘Irish Art International’, Art Monthly, 5 1996, p.13-16

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Selected Feature Articles (continued)
‘Yanks: Mark Tobey and Mark Rothko in England’, Art Monthly, 7-8 1996, p.9-14

‘The Colour of Colour: An Interview with Patrick Heron’, Contemporary Art, Winter 1994/5, p. 20-24

‘Shaping up with Ellsworth Kelly: An Interview’, Tate, Summer 1997, p.22-29

‘Nothing But Monsters: The Animation of Simon Pummell’, Art and Animation, in Art and Design Profile No.53, 1997, p.74-83

‘Abstract Luminism: On Recent British Abstraction, Contemporary Visual Art, No. 16, 1997

‘Structural Implants: Interview with Per Kirkeby’, Tate, Spring 1998, p.48-53

The Friedrich Factor’, Contemporary Visual Art, No.19, 1998, p.26-33

‘The Painted Word’, Contemporary Visual Art, No.23,1998, p.22-27

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Selected Feature Articles (continued)
'The Art of Darkness’, Tate, Summer 1999, p.37-39

‘The Narratives of Social Space’, Public Art Journal, Vol.1, No.2, Oct.1999, p.22-23

‘The Wreck of Hope: Painting After Nihilism’, Contemporary Visual Art, No.28, 2000, p.52-56

‘Close Encounters: Artists and the Past’, Tate, Summer 2000, p.52-58

Catalogue Essays
‘Made in Light: a Project by Martin Richman’, Tyseley Energy for Waste Facility, Birmingham, PACA, 1997

‘Heavier than Air: Mark Fairnington and Mark Dean, Imperial War Museum, 1998-99

‘Greenhouse Effect’, Serpentine Gallery, 2000

‘Shadows of the Mind: The Science Drawings of Sir Roger Penrose,’ Ruskin Laboratory, Oxford, 2000

‘After: Beth Harland’, The Gallery at Central School of Speech and Drama, 1999

‘A Conversation with Caspar David Friedrich concerning the Recent Paintings of Mark Wright’, Rhodes + Mann, 2000

Sacred and Profane , Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, (and tour), 2001

Ian Whittlesea, ‘Platform’ Jerwood Art Space, London, 2003