Jilly Morris
Frequently referencing landscape, the body, and diverse historical and cultural narratives, Jilly Morris is an interdisciplinary artist who produces work that is response-led, particularly to place or process. Her work incorporates drawing, ephemeral sculpture, installation, photography, and collecting and recording obscure forms of data. Having spent many years addicted to sound and translating the drawn line, Jilly is currently experimenting with the moving image and 'found sound'.
The focus of her practice is the concept of transition, including notions of unpredictability, vulnerability, and impermanence. Jilly's practice is inspired by the complexities of the human condition, the internal fragilities of being oneself, and the external events and rituals of place and people. Her work is informed by issues relating to human ecology, community, ritual, spirituality, and gender issues such as ageing.
Qualifications and training
2006 - MA Design by Research (merit), University of the West of England.
Exhibitions (a selection only)
2024
What is Home? - solo show - Little Box - Chiang Mai - Thailand
Shadowlands - Drawing Correspondence - online project
2023
Top Shed - Artist Residency - Norwich - UK
Prem Tinsulanonda International School - Artist Residency - Thailand
C.A.P Studio - Print Collaboration - Thailand
2022
Ageing - On line collaborative project between Thailand & UK
It's Tough being a Teddy - self initiated book project
2021
Travelled in Thailand & South East Asia
2020
Top Shed - Artist Residency - Norwich - UK
2019
Travelled Europe & South East Asia
TIME after [ () ] after TIME - Briggait - Glasgow
2018
Travelled Europe & South East Asia
Exhibition Wall - Bodhi Nava - Yangon - Myanmar
2017
In Nothing Flat - Old Granada Studios - Manchester
Studiobook 17 - Mark Devereux Projects - Manchester
Residencies
2025 - Visual Arts in Rural Communities - Northumberland - UK
2023 - Prem Tinsulanonda International School - Thailand
2020 & 2023 - Top Shed - Norwich - UK
2015 - The Observatory - Lymington Salt Marshes - UK
2009 to 2010 - VARC - Northumberland - UK
2007 - KHN Centre for the Arts - Nebraska City - USA
