The world in painting

James Morrison

Images by James Morrison derive from a felt response to nature, combined with a documentary impulse and the artist’s vivid imagination and memories. Morrison’s landscapes depict plants and animals in detailed veracity, assembled into impossible, hybrid environments in which different seasons and geographies combine and occasionally figures or fantastic creatures appear. In their blend of fictional and real worlds, these paintings extend humanity’s impulse to mythologise.  Morrison’s paintings seduce the eye, encouraging a revision of the viewer’s attitude toward the natural world.

The world in painting

An Asialink/Heide Museum of Modern Art exhibition toured by NETS Victoria
Curator: Zara Stanhope

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