Artist Member Kevin Morris
Artist MemberDetails
| First Name | Kevin |
| Last Name | Morris |
| Username | kevinmorris |
| Website | http://www.craftscotland.org/craft-directory/makers/kevin-morris |
| Region | Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire |
| Disciplines | Applied Arts and Craft, Ceramics, Sculpture |
| Themes | Environment, Identity, Landscape, Site-specific, Narratives |
Statement
| Statement |
The physical, social, and cultural landscape and environment i find myself in is hugely important to my work and development. Based in Aberdeen I am often referred to as a ‘Nomadic Ceramicist’ exhibiting my work nationally and internationally as well as working with a range of artists, institutions and on various public projects. Initially motivated by an investigation of my own family heritage and material culture my recent work engages with concepts of craft, material, and place, often exploring themes of multi-generational craft. Making narrative work that considers traditional and contemporary practice as well our collective connections to heritage and tradition through ceramics. I feel the practice of contemporary makers today is an extension of the lineage of practitioners who have gone before them, and hope to make work that contributes to this.
Thematically my recent work and practice has been shaped by northern landscapes, exploring themes of identity and place often through local eating and drinking cultures, focusing on these narratives and rituals associated with living within northern places, and how these actions preserve intimate and strong connections towards ‘north’ as itself, a place. I feel by their very nature; ceramics and food forge connection, cohesiveness and symbolize the intrinsically communal and collaborative aspects of both practices. |
Biography
| Biography | Initially undertaking Three Dimensional Design at Grays School of Art Morris went on to graduate with BA (Hons) in Ceramic Design in 2010 from The Glasgow School of Art.
Recent solo exhibitions include YARDARM at the Scottish Ceramics Gallery 2024, Under the Same Sky Das Project Space 2021, Out of the Woods, Look Again Project Space,Aberdeen, 2020 Heritage is the Context for All that Happens, Grays School of Art 2018, Meet Me in The Woods Assynt Ceramics Gallery 2018, Monarch of the Glen Ultimate Biscuit Tin, House for An Art Lover, Glasgow 2017 as well as A Northern Soul at the Lighthouse, Glasgow 2015.
He has exhibited in as well as curated exhibitions including Hunting for the Lost Crafts, Inverness Museum 2013 Coffee till Dusk, Whisky till Dawn, The Banff Centre Alberta 2016, Cheers and Dish at Medalta Historic Clay District, Alberta 2016/2017 as well as at Glasgow Sculpture Studios ‘Sculpture Showroom ‘Glasgow International, 2018,Väre,School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto, Finland for ‘Wood Fired’ and as part of Sim Residency Exhibition and Reykjavik Salt Jarðar / Salt of the earth, 2020, as part of The Underground Whisky Club at The Glenlivet 2021 and Tohisoo Mõisas/Kohila Paberivabrikus Estonia 2021 and Villi Taide, Kainuu Kaolin Finland in 2024.
He was selected for the Glasgow Life Visual Arts and Crafts Mentoring award in 2014 and 2017,Open Project Funding in 2018,receiving funding from the Eaton Trust, Crafts Council ,Creative Scotland, A-N and Aberdeen City Council in 2020,from RGU as part of the Vibrant Campus Award and was nominated for Inches Carr Trust in 2021.
His work featured as part of the Tallinn Applied Art Triennial The Art of Collecting in Estonia 2013 as well as part of the Expatriate Archives 10th Anniversary Project The Hague, Netherlands in 2018.He has undertaken residencies with Djim Bergner, Eindhoven 2011, The Scottish Sculpture Workshop 2012,with Ice Cream Architecture as part of Make Your Way and as part of the Naked Craft Networkexhibition touring Canada over 2015/2016 and Scotland over 2016/2017 as well as the Kiln Raising residency at The Banff Centre during 2016.Recently he has completed a residency at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark as part of the Wood Fire YAIR in 2018/2019 and 2022, Sim in Iceland at the start of 2020 as part of the Kohila Symposium/ARS in 2021, with The Glenlivet and National Trust Scotland as part of Pioneering Sprit in 2021. Undertaking the Rebuilding the Community Brick by Brick: The Ruchazie Hogganfield Gateway project with Platform, Clay Kitchen with Northlands Creative, AIR at the International Ceramics Studio Hungary, Medalta Medicine Hat Canada, The Clay College Stoke on Trent and at The Studio of Bill Brown, Voe Shetland over 2022.Recently completing a residency at the Kjærrahvalen in Norway 2024. |