Nicole Morris is an artist whose practice spans textiles, film and creative writing. Her work moves between exhibitions, healthcare and community contexts, exploring how making can become a space for reflection, repair and connection.
Current
Making Room, Maudsley Hospital and Drawing Room
At The Bedside, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, GOSH
Today I…, Home-Start and Foundling Museum
Permanently
In Your Hands, Mural, Lucas Ward Garden, Maudsley Hospital
Week by week, up in the air; the things that people left, Wall painting, Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health
Labour, Faith, Exhaustion, Batik quilt, The Bridge
Selected Exhibitions:
2025 >> Fragments Moving >>, Show Home, London
2024 Lost Mothers, Asociación Alcultura, Algeciras, Spain
Drawing Biennial 2024, Drawing Room, London
Discoveries V, Fiumano Clase, London
Waves, Peckham Pelican, London (solo)
2021 Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London
37th Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2020 Dear World commission, Wellcome centre for neuroimaging, UCL
2019 Survey, G39, Cardiff; Bluecoat, Liverpool & Baltic, Gateshead
Interiors, Compressor Projects, London (Solo)
Mixing Hands Mixing Feet, with the Supersmashers, South London Gallery
2018 INGEST | digest | excrete, with Maria de Lima, [SPACE], London
Survey, Jerwood Visual Arts, London
Little clown, My heart, Arthouse1, London
2017 Sisters, Space In Between, London (Solo)
2016 Girlfriend, with Miroslava Vecerová, The National Gallery, Prague
Rose, Tower, The Kennington Residency, London
2015 Gentle Triggers, I Turn the Images in my Head, Artycok
Caprice, Open Space, Baltimore
2014 Art Projects, The London Art Fair (Solo)
Time Based Media, UCL Art Musuem
Better Than Your Neighbour, Schloss Weisen, Frankfurt
2013 After Work, Locomotion, London (Solo)
Impressions, PAMI, Bold Tendencies, London (Solo)
Hunky Dory, Karlin Studios, Prague
Quantum Leap, Embassy Gallery Edinburgh and Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
You Screen I Screen Unscreen Sunscreen, Library +, London
2012 Same Husband, Space In Between, London (Solo)
A Romance In Two Parts, Galeria Magda Bellotti, Madrid (Solo)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012, ICA; Liverpool Biennial
20 Rue de Jacob, A Salon for Performance and Other Happenings, Galleria Rajatila, Finland
2011 Claire Baily, Nicole Morris, Ben Schumacher, Laure Genillard, London
2010 By Means of Matter, Generator Projects, Dundee
Selected Projects
2020-26 Navigating My Sea, Her Centre, Solace, Croydon Women’s Aid and National Maritime Museum
2025 Wellbeing and Creativity Club for young parents, New Town Culture
Feeling Our Way, St William of York Primary and Bow Arts
2024 Resist, Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health and Foundling Museum
Filling Gaps, Mind in Camden and Foundling Museum
2023-24 Barham Park Families Flourish, ACAVA
2021 -22 In The Folds, Coram and Foundling Museum
2020 Making in Isolation, Together, [ SPACE ]
Drawing Act I: Labour, Faith, Exhaustion, Drawing Room
2018-19 Supersmashers, South London Gallery
2018-20 Art and Us, MK Gallery
2017 Family Artist in Residence, Camden Arts Centre
2014-15 Artists-in-Residence Workshop Programme, Tate
Resources
Doing it Justice, A New Direction (2025)
Today I… Homestart and Foundling Museum (2025)
Resist, Coborn Centre for Adolescent Mental Health (2024)
Barham Park Families Flourish, ACAVA (2024)
Episode 4, This Thing We Call Art Podcast with Kelly Lloyd (2022)
Celebrations and Ceremonies (Making Moments Matter) Podcast, New Town Culture (2021)
A Picture of Health: Arts and Children’s Wellbeing, The Foundling Museum (2021)
Vital Signs: Drawing in Uncertain Times, The Drawing Room (2021)
Drawing Act I, Publication, Drawing Room Library (2020)
M is for Moving You Moving Through, Tate (2015)
Awards and Residencies:
2023 Artist in Residence, University of Bedfordshire
2022 London Creative Network
2021 Solidarity Fund, Artist’s Union England
2019 OUTPOST Gildengate House Residency
2018-19 JVA Artist Bursary
Artist in Residence, Bow Arts at Woolmore Primary
2018 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England (INGEST / digest / excrete)
Collaborate Residency, Compressor Projects
2017 Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England (Sisters)
2013 Nominated for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women
2012 Boise Travel Scholarship
2011 William Coldstream Prize
Galerie ve Sklepe Residency, Prague, Czech Republic
Littorall Arts- Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn Residency, Lake District
Curatorial Collaborative Projects:
2019 /Digest/, co-curated podcast and publication with contributions from Rae Yen Song, Holly Graham, Hana Janeckova, Maria Farar, Hannah Leighton- Boyce and Sofie Alsbo, Artlicks Weekend Radio
2014 LOCOMOTION co-curated Artist Moving Image Festival including works by Vanalyne Green, Mary Reid Kelley, Jenna Bliss, Lucy Beech, Ben Hagari, James Richards, Juliette Bonneviot, Lars Laumann, Steve Reinke, Emily Wardil, Stuart Middleton, Rachel Reupke and Mirsolava Vecerova
2013 LOCOMOTION co-curated Solo Presentation series with Mark Barker, Anna Bunting-Branch, Alec Kronacker, Terrence McCormack and Edward Thomasson
Artist Talks / Visiting Lecturing
Chelsea College of Art (BA Fine Art) (2024-5)
Winchester School of Art (BA Fine Art) (2024)
Artist in Conversation, Fiumano Clase (2024)
University of Bedfordshire, (BA Fine Art) (2023)
Queen Mary University (PhD Symposium- Modernism: Making, Place and Protest) (2018)
Wimbledon College of Arts (BA Fine Art) (2017)
The Slade School of Fine Art (MA Fine Art) (2015)
Artycok (Online Magazine Interview) (2014)
Central Saint Martins (MA Fine Art) (2014)
ICA; Bloomberg New Contemporaries (Online Interview) (2012)
Artist Led Workshops:
Inspired: Arts, Create, Waltham Forest, Young Carers (2025)
Artpress, TURF projects (2025)
Changing Minds, Create, Shaftesbury High SEND School (2025)
Culture Club Clay workshop, GOSH (2025)
Phoenix Primary Enrichment, Bow Arts (2024-5)
Family Frames: Stop motion animation workshop, [ SPACE] (2025)
Weaving, Embroidery and Natural Dyes, Chelsea College of Art (2025)
In Tandem: Create, Bethlem Adolescent Unit (2025)
Happening Now, Bow Arts CPD (2024)
AIR online Digital Tapestry workshop (2024)
Contemporary Elders, Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2024)
Adult Social Care Away Days, New Town Culture (2023)
Local Schools Program, Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2023)
Tate Collective, Tate St Ives (2021)
Schools’ Programme; Start Programme; Sunday Spot, South London Gallery (2017-20)
PPA and SEND program, Bow Arts (2018-19)
Art Press, Turf Projects (2019)
Big Draw, Jerwood Visual Arts (2018)
Beyond Memories, Dementia Workshop, London Brain Project (2017)
Young Persons Programme Frieze (2017)
Studio Takeover, Camden Art Centre (2017)
Project Visible, Schools and Teachers Workshop, Tate (2016)
Big Draw, Schools Workshop, Archer Academy (2016)
3D Storytelling with Cinema6, Intergeneration, Flat Time House (2015)
Lecturing, Producing, Mentoring
2019- 2025 Community Learning Lecturer, Morley College
2023 Creative Mentor, New Town Culture
Arts and Wellbeing Manager (interim), Foundling Museum
2019- 2023 Youth Projects Producer, Royal Museums Greenwich
2020 Artist Mentor, South London Gallery
2018- 2020 Artist Tutor, National Saturday Art and Design Club
2012- 2018 BA (hons) and Foundation Fine Art Lecturer, Havering College of FE and HE
Education:
2009-11 MA Fine Art Sculpture, Slade School of Art, London
2005-08 BA Fine Art Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, London
Contact:
contactnicolemorris@gmail.com