Cymraeg
Exhibition 
HEATHER AND IVAN MORISON
Heather Peak was born in Desborough, UK in 1973 and Ivan Morison was born in Nottingham, UK in 1974. In 2005 the Morisons acquired a site of ancient and mature woodland in North Wales and they are developing the area of mature conifers into an arboretum. They live in Arthog, North West Wales.

Pleasure Island

Pleasure Island

Pleasure Island
Work

The Morisons’ artworks focus on our spatial relationships with ordinary things, things forgotten and unnoticed, and convey the simple pleasures and passions of their endeavours and of those they meet. The formal outcomes of their investigations have included LED displays of text messages, slide shows, LP recordings of conversations, radio broadcasts, special one-off events and science-fiction novels written whilst in transit. Many of these blend factual recall with fictionalisation, merging information into a shifting narrative that builds on the mythology of Heather and Ivan Morison’s lives and the lives of the people they encounter.

Their work mirrors the passion, process and beauty of their subjects whether an astronomer, an ice fisherman, a florist or a beekeeper, to name but a few. They observe and collect the things they come into contact with, embracing chance encounters and seeking out subjects which are on the edge of daily life. The everyday and the incidental, the unusual, the hidden and the unforeseen, all are considered and brought together in an investigation of the things that surround us and to shed light on our place within these things. The artists take delight in revealing the essence of the mundane and its particularities and peculiarities.

The Morisons are currently working with Situations: University of the West of England on a new arts and ecology residency programme. Forthcoming projects include ‘Tales in Space and Time’, Folkestone Sculpture Triennale, ‘Thin Cities’, Piccadilly Line, Platform for Art, London and ‘Passionate Collectors’, New Art Gallery, Walsall. They featured in the recent ‘British Art Show 6’ and are represented by Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London where they have a solo show in November 2006.

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HEATHER AND IVAN MORISON
Heather Ann Peak, born Desborough, England (1973)
Ivan William Morison, born Nottingham, England (1974)


FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2006 – 2008 Arts and Ecology residency, commissioned by Situations, Bristol as part of the RSA and Gulbenkian Foundation Arts and Ecology Programm, Bristol, Englande
‘Tales in Space and Time’, Folkestone Sculpture Triennale, England
‘Thin Cities’, Piccadilly Line, Platform for Art, London, England
‘Golden Fluffer’, Transisition Gallery, London, England
‘Passionate Collectors’, New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Solo Show, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London, England
‘When beholding the tranquil beauty’, Bodgers' and Kludgers'
Co-operative Art  Parlour, Vancouver, Canada

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2006 ‘I lost her near Fantasy Island. Life has not been the same’, Commissioned by Situations, Bristol for the British Art Show 6, England
‘Tree Tour’, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
2005  ‘Starmaker’, Charles H Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
‘Dendrology Field Trip and Tree Tour’, South London Gallery, London, England
‘Chinese Arboretum’, Q Arts, Derby, England
2004  ‘Heather & Ivan Morison do not understand it’, IPS, Birmingham, England*
‘Heather & Ivan Morison are spellbound’, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, England*
‘Chinese Arboretum / I put you on a mile long string but still you broke away’, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, England*
‘Heather & Ivan Morison hired an aeroplane’, New Art Gallery Walsall, England*
‘Heather & Ivan Morison are confused’, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London, England*
‘Still Life’, Resonance 104.4fm, London, England
Birmingham International Film Club, Springhill Institute, Birmingham, England
2003  ‘Global Survey’, commissioned by Vivid, Birmingham, England. Partners included Ikon Gallery Birmingham, Metapod Birmingham, IPS Birmingham, Harris Museum Preston, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, IBID Projects Vilnius Lithuania, A2 Radijo Stotis Vilnius Lithuania, Helsinki City Art Gallery Finland, DEPO Novosibirsk Russia,
Red Gate Gallery Beijing China, Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth Australia, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston USA and New Museum New York, USA
‘Mr & Mrs Morison would like to inform you that...’, LED installation,
commissioned by Nigel Prince at IPS, Birmingham, England
‘Mr & Mrs Morison would like to inform you that...’, LED installation,
commissioned by Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England
2002  ‘Shrewsbury International Tree Tour’, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, England
‘Flower Stall’l, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
‘Colours and Sounds...’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2006  ‘British Art Show 6’, Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol, England*
‘Supernova’, Reims, Pommery, France*
‘Everything Must Go’, VTO Gallery, London, England
‘Crystal Worlds’, New Generation Arts, Birmingham, England
‘The Starry Messenger’, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England*
‘Archipeinture’, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
2005  ‘British Art Show 6’, Baltic Gateshead, England*
‘Human Nature’, Pump House Gallery Battersea, London*
‘Gathering Moss’, Q Arts, Derby, England
‘Spectator T: Art Sheffield 05’, Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, England
‘ARTfutures’, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space, London, England
‘Public Structures’, Guanzhou Triennial, China
‘Art of the Garden’, Ulster Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester City Art Gallery, England
‘Forest’, Nottingham Castle Gallery, England, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales and York Art Gallery, England
‘The Real Ideal’, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, England
‘Launch Programme’, Vivid, Birmingham, England
2004 ‘Everything's Gone Green: Photography and the Garden’,
National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England
‘Pistols and Petals’, Fundaci— Espais d'Art Contemporani of Girona, Spain*
‘The Art of the Garden’, Tate Britain, London, England*
‘Tempered Ground’, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art London /
Museum of Garden History, London, England*
‘Pleasure Garden’, Nottingham Castle Gallery, Nottingham, England
‘Clash’, Fused magazine, Birmingham, England*
2003   ‘Going a Journey’, Charles H Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada*
‘Exhumed’, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art / Museum of Garden History, London, England*
‘Fly’, Kirov House of Culture, Novosibirsk, Russia
‘Innocence’, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shrewsbury, England 
2002  ‘Colours in Ivan Morison’s...’, Museum of Garden History, London, England
‘Slim Volume’, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, England
‘Deliberate Regression’, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London, England*
‘Platforms 1’, commissioned by Jubilee Arts, West Bromwich, England
‘Outwardbound’, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich, England
2001   ‘Bring and Buy’, Transit Space, London, England
‘Record Collection’, VTO, London, touring to International 3 Gallery,
Manchester, England and Forde Gallery, Geneva


RESIDENCIES
 
2006  ‘Drowned Worlds’, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
2004  New Art Gallery Walsall, England
2003   Vivid, Birmingham, England
IBID Projects, Vilnius, Lithuania
DEPO, Novosibirsk, Russia
Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Tate Britain, London, England
Manchester City Art Gallery, England
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England
Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, England

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Heather & Ivan Morrison are represented by Danielle Arnaurd Gallery, London

GALLERY

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