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End of print run special. Normally $1600 clean out the studio at $750.

Less than half price!! Only a few left.

This is an acrylic screen printed hand painted edition of 20. Each one is individually and uniquely hand painted then hand screened by the artist. Signed and fingerprinted on stretched canvas. Includes shipping to most of Australia. 

Nick Morris Feature article in IDN magazine.

http://cn.idnworld.com/creators/?id=NickMorris 

ARTISTS LIFE. AN HONEST DAILY ACCOUNT OF MY LIFE AS AN ARTIST

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Urban Sprawl. New artwork series.

New art that I have been working on exploring the growth of urban sprawl. Having grown up in Ballarat on the edge of urban sprawl overlooking farms that were soon gobbled up by houses. The repetition of the houses and the paddocks that were slowly holding less livestock and becoming weed infested as suburbia took over. The farmer who was only to aware of the fate that awaited the farm.The hot summers that dried out the paddocks and the houses that large trees had yet to grow around, and truck loads of lawn mowers.

Special Acrylic screenprint on canvas 151x101cm $3900

My good friend and fellow collaborative artist David Bowers sent this to me. I love it. Infact this is pretty much how I live. When I was in college I got a poor pass for my art history thesis. I had about seven books open and was "sampling" from each of them. My lecturer said that she believed it was plagiarised but could not identify the source. In the words of Mad Max's mechanic when he was asked how he put the the interceptor together he replied; " a piece from here and a piece from there, I dunno man it just happened...."

Hanging at Yering Station 2nd February. Show runs till Mrach 18. A great spot for a weekend just over an hour from Melbourne.

 

 Doug Bartlett self Portrait a Doug Moran finalist

Nick Morris and David Bowers collaborative painting, Doug Bartlett 'Self Portrait' is a finalist in this years Doug Moran Art Prize .

The painting has been short listed in the portrait prize section. There are approximately 30 finalists. The Doug Moran Art Prize is the richest portrait prize in the world with the winner receiving $150,000.

 We use the pseudonym Doug Bartlett for our collaborative artworks. Doug Bartlett represents our joint darker sides, so this ‘self portrait’ pays homage to the police identikit. Our faces have been merged to create a screen-printed image, in which we tried to capture the non-emotion and clumsy placement of features in identikits. Screen print captures the grainy, ’sordid’ quality of criminal iconography. 

Pop Art / Pop Art Australia

 Nick Morris graduated from Monash University (Caulfield Australia) in 1986 with a Diploma in Graphic Design.

He has worked in the Street / Surf / Art subculture since creating clothing label “UMGAWA” in 1990. Morris then worked as art director for Quiksilver before launching his “Anyhow” design company in Torquay. He went on to produce art for Paul Frank, Stussy, Mambo, Mossimo, etc, and was a guest speaker at both the Semi Permanent and AGideas Art and Design conferences.

In 2007, Morris turned his back on commercial work to embrace a career as a full time artist. He has been prolific and devoted ever since. He works with acrylics, collage and screenprints, using images from post-war popular culture, Australiana and his own photographs.

He also collaborates with fellow artist Dave Bowers, under the name Doug Bartlett.

Morris has sold out shows around the globe with his solo and collaborative works.

“Morris’ and Bowers’ canvases indicate that freshness is still possible in a culture exhausted by all sorts of visual bombardment.”