Home Artists DEREK MORRIS

Kooness

Derek Morris

1940
Birmingham, United Kingdom

5 Works exhibited on Kooness

Current location

Birmingham

Represented by

Categories

Don't have the time to browse through this artist's catalogue? Fill in this form to receive a curated selection of their works tailor-made to your needs.

Works by DEREK MORRIS

Five lit windows Roseland_

2021

Sculpture

89.91 x 102.81 x 20.98cm

Contact for price

Orange Shift_

2021

Sculpture

60 x 60 x 2.54cm

Contact for price

Cuixa_

2021

Sculpture

64.99 x 116.99 x 21cm

Contact for price

Three Yellow Eclipses_

2021

Sculpture

89.5 x 51.51 x 18.99cm

Contact for price

Seven Lit Windows_

2021

Sculpture

54.5 x 127.5 x 21.99cm

Contact for price

Derek Morris was born in Birmingham in 1940 into a family of creative people. His mother was an embroideress and weaver and his sister is a silversmith and jeweller. His father was a draughtsman, pattern maker, modeller and sculptor, and had his studio at home, so Morris mixed his first bowl of plaster at the age of six. He was the first boy from his grammar school to study fine art at university.

Morris studied at Newcastle University from 1958 until 1963, the final year as a Hatton Scholar. Tutors on the course included Kenneth Rowntree, Quentin Bell, Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore He eventually graduated with a first-class honours Degree. In 1963 he studied at Chelsea School of Art under Lawrence Gowing and George Fullard, teaching part-time at Ealing College to support his studies. In 1965 he returned to Newcastle to become a studio demonstrator in the sculpture school for two years. In 1990 he retired from Norwich School of Art in order to concentrate full-time on his studio practice.

He has worked in a variety of media as a sculpture, focusing on ceramic work in the mid-1990s and then using stainless steel, plywood, perspex, paint, mirror, gold and silver leaf, mesh and LED lights. Morris says about his work: “Although there is overtly no subject matter supporting this work other than the realities of geometric structure, the powerful impact of materiality through edge, surface and colour and the disquieting realization of small spaces, all work together to achieve a synthesis of these qualities which has not only an intellectual dimension but also an emotional presence too. The intention throughout, by using modest means and relatively mundane materials, is to create unexpected and varied spatial experiences, not being abstract so much as simply presenting other aspects of reality based upon the language of geometry.”