Paul Morrison

Paul Morrison's monochrome landscapes and plant paintings, which are predominantly in black and white, are reminiscent of silhouettes or woodcuts in their flatness and sharp contours. His formal language alternates between the naturalism of botanical textbooks and a striking stylisation familiar to us from the world of comics and cartoons. In addition, Morrison's plants do not follow a stringent perspective: large is often small and small is large. Blossoms, leaves, and stalks appear oversized, are drawn out, distorted and stretched, condensing here and there into graphic signs, while miniature trees grow out of the ground like sprouts of grass. Paul Morrison designed such a surreal plant world for the foyer at Münchner Tor. Morrison's play with proportions, perspectives and degrees of abstraction is like a poetic lesson for a different way of seeing.

The British artist also follows the principle of changing perspectives in his sculptures. His large-scale metal works seem to dematerialise, as it were, as the viewer walks around them. His large sculptural works appear like surreal plant monoliths in the landscape, standing out through their size and silhouette-like presence. In the courtyard, surrounded by natural plantings, stands Paul Morrison's latest sculpture, Catalpa, from 2022.

Morrison's work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in prestigious private and institutional collections, including the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK; Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA; MoMA, New York, USA; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, USA; Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK.

Paul Morrison (born 1966 in Liverpool) lives and works in London.