The Viral Sublime: a solo exhibition of paintings by Suzi Morris

With a devotion to the substance of oil paint Morris presents this inaugural solo exhibition as a mini-retrospective of large-scale and smaller paintings completed over the past few years. The sciences of virology and genomics capture her imagination in multifarious ways and have become a medium through which decisions are made in her painting. Each canvas is composed of multiple veils of translucent colour leading the eye from translucent pools through to denser areas, built up over time as the paintings evolve through a process of composition and erasure. This is the first time that she has exhibited diptychs and triptychs that comprise both aluminium and canvas in London.

Dr Suzi Morris was born in Ayr and originally studied Illustration and Design at Kingston University. The City & Guilds of London Art School marked her commitment to full-time painting, where she completed an MA in Fine Art before undertaking a practice based Professional Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London in 2017. Formerly an art director in film, in 2016 she co-founded the da Vinci Artists Residency and has since been awarded a da Vinci Artists brush in her name. She now lives and works in South London and will feature in ‘The Residency’, a documentary to be released in 2018. Her work has featured in several exhibitions in the UK and Germany with work held in private collections in France, Germany, Thailand and the UK.