Installation View, Locky Morris, Last chance for a dark wash, 30 Sept - 11 Nov 2023 Gallery 1 Regional Cultural Centre, Donegal, Ireland
Photo: Simon Mills
Installation View, Locky Morris, Last chance for a dark wash, 30 Sept - 11 Nov 2023 Gallery 1 Regional Cultural Centre, Donegal, Ireland
Photo: Simon Mills
Installation View, Locky Morris, Last chance for a dark wash, 30 Sept - 11 Nov 2023 Gallery 1 Regional Cultural Centre, Donegal, Ireland
Photo: Simon Mills
Installation View, Locky Morris, Last chance for a dark wash, 30 Sept - 11 Nov 2023 Gallery 1 Regional Cultural Centre, Donegal, Ireland
Photo: Simon Mills
Installation View, Locky Morris, Last chance for a dark wash, 30 Sept - 11 Nov 2023 Gallery 1 Regional Cultural Centre, Donegal, Ireland
Photo: Simon Mills
Last chance for a dark wash is a new site-specific exhibition by Locky Morris that features collaborations with artist Jaki Irvine. The exhibition reflects the artist’s current practice and process, with elements drawn from the video project residency at the Regional Cultural Centre (2021 – 22).
Over the last two decades, Morris has adopted a daily routine of walking and wandering, probing at the edges of the city and coastline. Gleaning his material from liminal spaces, we are invited to look differently, beyond the actuality of what we might see and perhaps consider the sublime in the most ordinary.
The exhibition includes an installation of found-sculptural assemblages, video and photographic work. The artistic approach, mostly improvisational as witnessed on his Instagram feed, is situated between a certain order and spontaneous energy. Playful, succinct and often discordant, the work suggests another way of looking and interacting with the world, while questioning notions of intrinsic value.
Locky Morris was born in Derry City where he continues to live and work. Renowned for his early work that explicitly dealt with the conflict in Northern Ireland – most notably from a socially embedded perspective – he has gone on to develop another working vocabulary that moves fluidly between the personal, public and political. While still informed by the complexities and intricacies of his immediate landscape, this work extends across photography, video, gallery installation and incorporates the social media platform Instagram.
Morris’ practice, born in part out of a fascination for what confronts him in the often chaotic details of the everyday, is rich, inventive and marked by a visual playfulness that feels distinctly his own. Running parallel to this have been numerous large-scale works and interventions in the public realm. The work has also been influenced by his active musicianship.
30 Sept - 11 Nov 2023
Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland
Exhibition curated by Rachel Botha.
'Breaking the Narrative'
Thames-Side Gallery
Harrington Way, Warspite Road
Royal Borough of Greenwich
London SE18 5NR
Breaking the Narrative brings together six contemporary artists (two collaborations) whose work delves into the creative studio practice - identifying a move towards a collage aesthetic, a conversational approach to the subject and the crossing and mixing of genres to fashion compelling works of art that speak to our relationship with the digital world.
Through the work of the exhibiting artists, Bensley & Dipre, Paul Brandford, Broughton & Birnie, Simon Leahy-Clark, Locky Morris and Alex Pearl, we explore issues of fragmentation, adjustment and reconstruction, and the expansion of possible meaning.
https://www.newexhibitions.com/e/62309
Re_sett_ing_s, JAKI IRVINE & LOCKY MORRIS 2023. Void Gallery Derry. Photo: Simon Mills
Re_sett_ing_s, JAKI IRVINE & LOCKY MORRIS 2023. Void Gallery Derry. Photo: Simon Mills
Re_sett_ing_s, JAKI IRVINE & LOCKY MORRIS 2023. Void Gallery Derry. Photo: Simon Mills
JAKI IRVINE & LOCKY MORRIS
https://www.derryvoid.com/viewing-room/re_sett_ing_s-locky-morris-and-jaki-irvine/
Culture Cafe Radio Ulster https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k09y
Culture File Podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/4x3KO6EgVBH6zGs2SF5oPX
Exhibition Run: March 4, 2023-June 3, 2023
Gallery Opening Hours: Tues - Sat 11am - 5pm
Dublin Sound Lab presents a programme of Irish premiers, including three new works written especially for this performance by Francis Heery, Jaki Irvine and Alessandro Massobrio’s new Music Current Festival commission...Jaki Irvine’s Re_sett_ing_s (for mixed chamber ensemble and live video/VJ) is quite literally a resetting of her recent two-person show of the same name, with Locky Morris at The Complex, Dublin. The artist John Graham described that exhibition as, “a panoply of looping images and sounds; a discursive array of interacting elements that, while tightly constructed, feels enjoyably lawless.” Here the work is literally reset, amplified and projected with the forces of flute, violin, piano and drum kit, and revels in its self confidence and tightly controlled lawlessness.
“Dublin Sound Lab is doing an important job for those in Ireland who remain passionate about music in the post-war avant-garde lineage and who rarely get the opportunity to hear such ‘difficult’ music performed… …flying the flag in Ireland over the past decade for European modernism.” [Liam Cagney, Journal of Music]
Locky Morris, Michelle Malone, and Laura Quinn at the opening of The Golden Fleece Award: 21 years exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre.
Installation image The Golden Fleece Award: 21 years exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre.
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Locky Morris
2019
Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Matt Fiber 200gsm
380mm x 313mm
Image posted on Instagram ‘especiallyeverything’ @lockymorrisartist 5/11/19
The Golden Fleece Award: 21 years exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre.
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Locky Morris
2020
Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Matt Fiber 200gsm
250mm x 380mm
(Image posted on Instagram ‘especiallyeverything’ @lockymorrisartist 26/9/2020)
Michelle Malone, Locky Morris, and Laura Quinn announced as recipients of the 2022 Golden Fleece Award at the opening of The Golden Fleece Award: 21 years exhibition at Solstice Arts Centre. https://www.goldenfleeceaward.com/news/winners-of-the-2022-golden-fleece-award-announced
The Irish singer-songwriter's track about exile and shifting dimensions is accompanied with visual artist Locky Morris's meditative footage of intertidal mudflats https://www.thewire.co.uk/video/cathal-coughlan-unrealtime
Locky Morris ©