Ocula Conversation Julia Morison By Priscilla Pitts, Wellington Two thousand and fifteen marks the 40th anniversary of New Zealand artist Julia Morison’s first exhibition. Morison studied graphic design at Wellington Polytechnic in 1970-2 and painting at the University of Canterbury in 1973-5. After showing a number of severely formalist paintings she took a break from exhibiting: from this came two very...
Related Press Artist's New Year honour: 'We don’t value the arts highly enough' 30 December 2017, Stuff Julia Morison didn't need to give much thought to whether or not to accept her latest accolade. The Christchurch artist has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours, arguably the highest recognition of a 40-year career. 'Anything that promotes the arts is a really good thing,' she said. 'We have so much...
Related Press A Conversation with Julia Morison 25 July 2015, EyeContact 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of New Zealand artist Julia Morison's first exhibition. Morison studied graphic design at Wellington Polytechnic in 1970–2 and painting at the University of Canterbury in 1973–5. After showing a number of severely formalist paintings she took a break from exhibiting: from this came two very large, multi-part works:...
Related Press Martin And Morison At Jonathan Smart 4 June 2014, Andrew Paul Wood for EyeContact / 28 May 2014 Two recent contemporaneous exhibitions at Christchurch’s Jonathan Smart Gallery show that even when exploring the visual vocabulary of modernism, it is still perfectly possible to playfully and meaningful allude to tradition - but that’s what postmodernism is all about, a breaking down of hierarchies and chronologies, a rejection of...
