Annie Morris (born 1978) is a British artist based in London. She is best known for her Stack series, begun in 2014, comprising vertically balanced spherical forms in various colors that are precariously stacked. Constructed from carved foam and layered with plaster, sand, pigment, concrete and steel, the works are often finished in vivid ultramarine, cadmium red and other saturated colours, utilizing a painterly quality. Morris also makes large oil-stick drawings and sewn textile works derived from her drawings called “thread paintings.” The artist has shown internationally at galleries and museums and is included in over a dozen permanent collections.

Morris’s work draws on personal experience, memory and childhood imagery. She shares a studio with the artist Idris Khan.

Life and career

She attended Central Saint Martin's and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under the tutelage of sculptor Giuseppe Penone, then The Slade School of Fine Art, graduating from Camberwell College of Arts.[citation needed] She works from a studio in Stoke Newington she shares with her husband, the British artist Idris Khan. They have two children.

Morris’ Stack sculptures shaped from plaster, sand, and painted with raw pigment, resemble a three-dimensional artist’s palette, originally inspired by the 1988 painting- Bed with Colour by Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies. The dry, freshly painted feel of the stack’s form, is Morris’ metaphor to childbirth and fragility. She is also known for her drawings and collaborated with Sophie Dahl's first book The Man with the Dancing Eyes, 2003, published by Bloomsbury.

In 2006 Morris was commissioned by Christopher Bailey, director of fashion label Burberry, to make a dress made out of her painted clothes pegs. Morris was commissioned by American architect Peter Marino to create a work for Louis Vuitton’s flagship store opened in October 2017 at Place Vendôme, Paris.

Morris designed an Art Deco-inspired wall mural and a stained glass window installed at the Painter’s Room inside Claridge’s in London in 2022.

In 2023, the artist was commissioned by The Hepworth Wakefield to create a permanent public sculpture, Bronze Stack 9 Viridian Green.

Morris is represented by Timothy Taylor gallery (in both London and New York).

Selected exhibitions

Morris has shown work internationally, including those at:

Selected Public and Private Collections

  • Amore Pacific Museum of Art, KR
  • ASE Foundation, Shanghai, CN
  • Hotel Crillon Collection, Paris, FR
  • Cranford Collection, London, UK
  • The Gersh Collection, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • De Grisogono Collection, New York, NY, USA
  • Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, CN
  • Hearst Collection, New York, NY, USA
  • Indigo Art Museum, Gujarat, IN
  • Kistefos Museet, Jevnaker, NO
  • Long Museum, Shanghai, CN
  • Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, CN
  • Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, France and Shanghai, CN
  • Missoni Family Collection, IT
  • Modern Forms, London, UK
  • Perez Collection, Miami, FL, USA
  • Soho House Collection, London, UK
  • Tisch Collection, New York, NY, USA
  • Victoria and Warren Miro, London, UK
  • University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO, USA

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