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Element + Form

Julia
Morison

New Zealand
b.1952

This website is an archive of my work. It will hopefully be a useful tool for anyone interested in the work I make as a contemporary visual artist. All works have been posited to a system of 10 separate groups. Each group, I-X is aligned with a particular material or quality and a geometrical form. This system, which is also a consistent device within many of the works, draws together works with similar preoccupations. Note that this archive is incomplete— if you own a work that is not featured in this archive, I would be very grateful for your help in providing me with a description and photographic documentation.

 

 

Element + Form

  • Transparent + Circle
  • Gold + Triangle
  • Silver + Vessel
  • Mercuric Oxide + Cross
  • Blood + Twist
  • Pearl + Spiral
  • Shit + Arrow
  • Clay + Vesica Piscis
  • Ash + Pedestal
  • Lead + Square
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Artwork

Artwork

  • 2024
  • Meditations
  • 2023
  • Omnium Gatherum: Fleshed Out
  • 2022
  • Omnium Gatherum: 3(.)6 degrees of separation
  • Segue B
  • Vademecum II
  • 2021
  • Omnium Gatherum: Alembic
  • Square Deal
  • 2020
  • Segue
  • Segue- Inglio print
  • 2019
  • Um/Er
  • 2018
  • Omnium Gatherum: Issue
  • Omnium Gatherum: Nervous
  • Shawl: Omnium Gatherum Edition of 50
  • Star Folly- Concept
  • Things yet to be named
  • Wall woorms to be worn
  • 2017
  • Omnium Gatherum: Holey
  • Stair Folly- Concept
  • Things on the Wall
  • 2016
  • A Trifling Investment of Fact
  • Omnium Gatherum: Pheromone
  • Omnium Gatherum: Tangent
  • Order Matters
  • 2015
  • Flipside
  • Omnium Gatherum: Ephemeridae Collaboration with Aaron Beehre. Unbound book of twenty leaves printed on Somerset Velvet paper on Risograph press. Encased in hand-stamped leather wallet. Edition of 20
  • Omnium Gatherum: Hooked up
  • 2014
  • Head[case]
  • Head[case] drawings
  • 2013
  • 2000 Grounds for Error
  • Ouroborus/Wooorm
  • Tree Houses for Swamp Dwellers
  • 2012
  • Aibohphobia
  • An oval is an longated circle like an egg
  • M(o)usings
  • Myriorama- NEC office, Wellington
  • Ovoid
  • 2011
  • Grid
  • Monochromes in Liqueurfaction
  • Myriorama- Sargeant
  • Things
  • Things [giclee print] Edition of 20
  • 2010
  • Myriorama- Christchurch City Council
  • Myriorama- Suter Gallery
  • Myriorama- Sydney Opera House
  • Myriorama- Two Rooms
  • 2009
  • Myriorama- Adam Gallery
  • Myriorama- foyer Auckland
  • Myriorama- set pieces
  • Wayzgoose
  • 2008
  • Myrioama- Ramp Gallery
  • Myriorama, 64zero3
  • Myriorama- Tauranga
  • Myriorama- Two Rooms
  • Ringing the Changes 60 monoprints
  • 2007
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes: 'a loop around a loop' Dunedin
  • La derrierriere d'Ada
  • 2006
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes: 'a loop around a loop' Christchurch Art Gallery
  • Flotsam & Jetsam Edition:20
  • Gargantua's Petticoat
  • Grey's Anatomy
  • 2005
  • Gobsmack & Flabbergast
  • 2003
  • no names for things no string for
  • Threadbare
  • 2002
  • Space Invaders
  • Square off
  • 2001
  • Crossing the Rubicon
  • From the Book of Shadows
  • Teaching Aids
  • Whoopee
  • 2000
  • Centrefolds
  • Eraser
  • 1999
  • Amperzand
  • 1998
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes: L’Ancien Collège des Jésuites, Reims, France
  • Edicts
  • Tondo
  • 1997
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes: diptychs
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes: Jensen Gallery, Auckland
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes: Jonathan Smart, Christchurch
  • From 1,m0n0chr0mes
  • Material Evidence: 100-headless woman. Collaboration with Martin Grant.
  • 1996
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes: Annex Gallery, Christchurch
  • Command a view of a distant cry wide of the mark
  • StutterinG
  • 1995
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes unlimited edition
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes: New Gallery, Auckland
  • 100 Headless Woman
  • Angel/Fly
  • Bloodwite
  • Conversing with Loplop
  • Sugar Daddy
  • 1994
  • Decanted
  • End to Begin
  • 1993
  • Love Philtres
  • 1992
  • Book for Micromegus
  • Codex
  • Encyclopedia
  • I Ching
  • Melancholia
  • O'Livia
  • 1991
  • Amalgame
  • Carnet de Voyage
  • Objet Trouve
  • 1989
  • Decan
  • Quiddities
  • Yum Yum & Blind Man
  • 1986
  • Somniloquist
  • Vademecum
  • 1985
  • Godog
  • Golem
  • 1984
  • Accessories for a Soft Machine
  • Equivocation
  • Portrait of Henry Gray
  • 1982
  • Drawing towards rhombus
  • Rhombus
  • 1981
  • Inclination
  • Wedge
  • 1979
  • Obverse Reverse
  • Twist
  • 1978
  • a random drawing
  • 1976
  • Align to a line
  • All the same… Antithesis Pl.VI
  • Mute Echo
  • 1974
  • Untitled drawing
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Exhibition

Exhibition

  • 2024
  • Entelechy Webbs Gallery, Wellington
  • Ode to Hilma: Julia Morison Wellington City Gallery
  • Art Fair 2024; Emily Gardener/Jonathan Smart Auckland
  • Vademecum II Webbs Gallery, Wellington
  • 2023
  • Art Fair: Trish Clark Auckland
  • Live another day Nadene Milne Gallery, Christchurch
  • 2022
  • 3(.)6 degrees of separation Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Hindsight Trish Clark Gallery
  • 2021
  • Omnium Gatherum: Alembic Sumer Gallery, Tauranga
  • Sumer at Auckland Art Fair Auckland
  • Head[case] Tauranga Art Gallery
  • Head[case] Adam Gallery, Auckland
  • All That Is Solid Melts Auckland Art Gallery
  • Head[case] Sargeant Gallery, Whanganui
  • 2020
  • Segue Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Head[case] Objectspace
  • Myriorama 11 Sumer Gallery, Tauranga
  • 2019
  • Head[case] Christchurch Art Gallery
  • The Head and the Heart Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Um/Er Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland
  • Roundabout Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • 2018
  • Jonathan Smart Gallery Auckland Art Fair
  • Rock n Roll: 30 yrs on Jonathan Smart Gallery, Chrsitchurch
  • Omnium Gatherum: 5th Iteration Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • 2017
  • Tai Tapu Sculpture. Tai Tapu,Christchurch
  • The River Lie, Suter Gallery Nelson
  • Things from the Book of Shadows Two Rooms, Auckland
  • Open Studio Christchurch
  • 2016
  • Spirit Level, Yellow House Gallery Sydney
  • Omnium Gatherum Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Omnium Gatherum, Two Rooms Auckland
  • Undreamed of... 50 years of Frances Hodgkins Fellowship Hocken Library & Dunedin Public Art Galleru
  • The XX Factor Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland
  • Julia Morison: 7 Great paintings from the 80's Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown
  • Handbuilt Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland
  • Vibre - group exhibition Jonathan Smart Gallery, Chrsitchurch
  • 2015
  • Head[case] Two Rooms, Auckland
  • Implicated and Immune Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland
  • Omnium Gatherum Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
  • 2014
  • Head[case] Bartley + Company Art, Wellington
  • 2000 Grounds for Error Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown
  • 2000 Grounds for Error Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Choice Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Collected Fictions Te Manawa, Palmerston North
  • Loaded Enjoy, Wellington
  • 2013
  • 25:52 Jonathan Smart Gallery
  • 2000 Grounds for Error Two Rooms, Auckland
  • Tree Houses for Swamp Dwellers Public Sculpture, Christchurch
  • Ouroborus / Wooorm Botanical Gardens, Dunedin
  • 2012
  • Meet me on the other side Ng Building, Christchurch City Gallery
  • Dense Hang Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Meet me on the other side Wellington City Gallery, 17 August-7 October
  • Peripheral Relations: Marcel Duchamp and New Zealand Art 1960-2011 Adam Gallery, Victoria University, Auckland, July-October.
  • M(o)usings Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • NEC entrance Wellington
  • 2011
  • Meet me on the other side Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland
  • Myriorama:10 'Sleight of Hand', Sargeant Gallery, Wanganui
  • Old School/New School- An Art & Design History of New Zealand Massey University, Wellington
  • Cantabrians Oxford Art Gallery
  • Aibohphobia Bunker Project, Christchurch Art Gallery
  • Bunker Project Christchurch Art Gallery forecourt
  • 2010
  • Ringing the Changes Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland
  • Myriorama:07:Network '17th Biennale of Sydney: The Beauty of Distance, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age', Australia
  • Myriorama:08 Knot commission for the Christchurch City Council, Christchurch
  • Myriorama:06 Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland
  • Myriorama:09 in 'Sleight of Hand' The Port Nelson Suter Biennale, Nelson
  • 2009
  • Wayzgoose [limited edition] Muka Gallery, Auckland
  • Myriorama:05 'Wall Works', Adam Gallery, University of Victoria, Wellington
  • Inner Landscapes SoFA Gallery, Christchurch
  • Works:1990-99 Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington
  • Oikkio Mark Hutchins Gallery, Auckland Art Fair
  • 2008
  • Myriorama:02 Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland
  • 64 (final exhibiton) 64zero3, Christchurch
  • We are unsuitable for framing Te Papa, Wellington
  • Myriorama:01 64zero3, Christchurch
  • Myriorama:03 Ramp Gallery, Wintec, Hamilton
  • Teaching Aids Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga
  • Myriorama:04 Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga
  • 2007
  • Gargantua's Petticoat Two Rooms, Auckland
  • a loop around a loop Dunedin Public Art Gallery
  • Painting: Helen Calder & Julia Morison Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
  • Heather Straka & Julia Morison Ngaumatau Gallery, Arrowtown
  • The Secret Life of Paint Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
  • Art School 125 Christchurch City Gallery
  • Slating Art CoCA, Christchurch
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes:7 in 'a loop around a loop', Dunedin
  • 2006
  • a loop around a loop Christchurch City Art Gallery
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes:6 in 'a loop around a loop', Christchurch
  • Black, white and shades of grey Gallery 64zero3, Christchurch
  • Visual Arts Celebrated by the Arts Foundation of New Zealand Auckland Art Gallery
  • 2005
  • Gobsmack & Flabbergast 64zero3, Christchurch
  • Celestial Bodies (with John Chrisstoffels and Chris Cree-Brown) Town Hall, Christchurch
  • One Thing & Thing Too [curated by Madame] 64zero3, Christchurch
  • Teaching Aids Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland
  • Some works from Gobsmack & Flabbergast The Signal, Hamilton
  • Some works from Gobsmack & Flabbergast Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
  • 2004
  • 2nd Auckland Triennial Auckland City Art Gallery
  • Primary Connections Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch
  • Space Invaders Lopdell House Gallery, Waitakere City
  • Public/Private: Tumatanui/Tumataiti, The 2nd Auckland Triennial Auckland Art Gallery
  • no names for things no string for Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
  • SOFA Print Project SOFA Gallery, Christchurch
  • 2003
  • Threadbare Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Signs and Wonders Te Papa, Wellington
  • Inaugural Contemporary Collection Exhibition Christchurch Art Gallery
  • no names for things no string for Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Julia Morison: Works 1981–1984 Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
  • 2002
  • From the Book of Shadows Jensen Gallery, Auckland
  • Angels and Flies Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Teaching Aids Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton
  • High Street Project Fundraising Show (aka Madame) High Street Gallery, Christchurch
  • M.A.C. Artworks Art Auction Royal & Sun Alliance Building, Auckland
  • Sightlines: looking into the art collection Te Papa, Wellington
  • 2001
  • Crossing the Rubicon Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Teaching Aids:1 'Dark Plain' Christchurch Arts Festival, CoCA, Christchurch
  • Prospect 2001 City Gallery, Wellington
  • PAIN.01: School of Fine Arts Painting Department exhibition' City Art Space, Christchurch
  • New Work Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
  • Menagerie Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
  • Dark Plain Christchurch Arts Festival, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch
  • 2000
  • Jude Rae, Tony Lane, Julia Morison Jensen Gallery, Auckland
  • The Numbers Game: Art and Mathematics Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington
  • In Glorious Dreams (with Heather Straka) Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth
  • Canterbury Painting in the 1990s Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
  • Not Seen to be Staring: Madame & the Bastard with Heather Straka] Janne Land Gallery, Wellington
  • Madame & the Bastard do Black (with Heather Straka) The Kiosk, Christchurch
  • 1999
  • Amperzand Jensen Gallery, Auckland
  • Julia Morison Jensen Gallery, Wellington
  • Take 5 Te Papa, Wellington
  • Material Evidence: 100-headless woman (with Martin Grant) 'Jardins Secrets' KP5 Biennale L’hospital Charles Foix, Paris
  • Wallace Art Awards Wallace Gallery, Auckland; City Gallery, Wellington; COCA, Christchurch
  • Not Seen to be Staring [Madame & the Bastard] Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Material Evidence: 100-Headless Woman Judith Clarke Gallery, London
  • Material Evidence: 100-Headless Woman Selfridges Department Store, London
  • Madame & the Bastard (with Heather Straka) Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
  • 1998
  • Edicts & Tondos Jensen Gallery, Auckland
  • Material Evidence: 100-headless woman Wellington City Gallery
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes:5 L’Ancien Collège des Jésuites, Reims, France
  • Material Evidence: 100-headless woman The Adelaide Festival, Artspace, Adelaide. Australia
  • Julia Morison Jensen Gallery, Wellington
  • 1997
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes:3 Conversing with Loplop Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • Material Evidence: 100-headless woman Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth
  • StutterinG Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes:4 [&] Jensen Gallery, Auckland
  • 1996
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes:2 McDougall Annex, Christchurch
  • Command a view of a distant cry wide of the mark & Golem Jensen Gallery, Wellington
  • 1995
  • End to Begin Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch
  • 1,m0n0chr0mes:1 Auckland New Gallery
  • 25 into 41 Gold Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • A Very Peculiar Practice: Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting City Gallery, Wellington
  • Decanted Jensen Gallery, Wellington
  • 1994
  • Re-rite: Amalgame Fisher Gallery, Auckland
  • Love Philtres Jonathan Jensen Gallery, Christchurch
  • Taking Stock of the ’90s Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
  • Parallel Lines: Gordon Walters in Context City Art Gallery, Auckland
  • Educating Miranda [with Michael Ghent] Video de Poche, Paris
  • Amalgame Pt.II Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
  • 1993
  • Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton
  • Love Philtres Artspace, Auckland
  • Love Philtres Govett Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth
  • Group exhibition Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
  • Women on Women: Art in Dunedin since 1893 Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
  • White Camellias
  • Alter/Image Public Art Gallery, Auckland
  • Alter/Image City Gallery, Wellington
  • Codex Jonathan/Jensen Gallery, Christchurch
  • Amalgame Pt.II and Encyclopedia Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamilton
  • 1992
  • The Boundary Rider: 9th Biennale of Sydney Sydney, Australia
  • O’Livia: an alternative plan for Livia’s garden Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
  • Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand art National Art Gallery, Wellington; MCA Sydney; Auckland Art Gallery; Dunedin Art Gallery
  • Group exhibition Gregory Flint Gallery, Auckland
  • Artists-in-Residence: The Frances Hodgkins Fellows Past and Present Hocken Library, Dunedin
  • Past and Present Hocken Library, Dunedin
  • 1991
  • Amalgame Cadran Solaire, Troyes, France
  • The Cross Artis Gallery, Auckland
  • Aller Retour Artis Gallery, Auckland
  • Retables from Amalgame Jonathan/Jensen Gallery, Christchurch
  • 1990
  • New Zealand Modern Masters II Collection -Toured
  • Now See Hear! Art, language and translation City Gallery, Wellington
  • Julia Morison, Pauline Rhodes, Graham Bennett and Simon Morris Jonathan/Jensen Gallery, Christchurch
  • In the Forest of Dream [Moët & Chandon NZ Art Foundation] Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; Artspace, Auckland; Suter Gallery, Nelson
  • Artis Group Show Artis Gallery, Auckland
  • [...] exuberant, floating, dancing, mocking, childish and blissful art George Fraser Gallery
  • Decan: A Work in Ten Parts Artspace, Auckland
  • 1989
  • Canterbury Belles Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch. Toured 1989–1991
  • Decan: A Work in Ten Parts CSA Gallery, Christchurch
  • Decan: A Work in Ten Parts Hocken Library, Dunedin
  • Anatomy Jonathan/Jensen Gallery, Christchurch
  • 1988
  • Exhibits: The Museum Display and the Encyclopedia Plate National Art Gallery, Wellington; Artspace, Auckland
  • Four Works 1985–86 Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
  • 1987
  • Sex and Sign McDougall Gallery, Christchurch
  • Vademecum & Golem Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington
  • Vademecum & Golem Artis Gallery, Auckland
  • Sex and Sign Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui
  • Sex and Sign Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
  • Sex and Sign Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
  • Sex and Sign Hawke’s Bay Art Gallery and Museum, Napier
  • Sex and Sign Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
  • Sex and Sign City Gallery, Wellington
  • Sex and Sign Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
  • Sex and Sign Artspace, Auckland
  • Content and Symbol Artis Gallery, Auckland
  • ARX ’87: Australia and Regions Artists’ Exchange Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Australia
  • 1986
  • Content/Context: A survey of recent New Zealand art National Gallery of New Zealand
  • Inclinations Artis Gallery, Auckland
  • 1985
  • The Word Suter Gallery, Nelson (toured)
  • Tenth Anniversary Exhibition Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
  • Three Works RKS Art, Auckland
  • Paintings and Drawings Centre Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamilton
  • Equivocation Louise Beale Gallery, Wellington
  • 1984
  • Invocation/Equivocation Brooke Gifford Gallery
  • Joan Miró Drawing Exhibition Barcelona, Spain and Okinawa, Japan
  • Apertures CSA Gallery, Christchurch
  • Julia Morison- Recent Paintings Petar/James Gallery, Auckland
  • 1983
  • Works on Paper: 3rd Anniversary Exhibition Gingko Gallery, Christchurch
  • The President’s Exhibition: mixed media on paper CSA Gallery, Christchurch
  • 1982
  • Julia Morison Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch
  • Julia Morison Petar/James Gallery, Auckland
  • 1981
  • Petar/James Gallery, Auckland
  • 1980
  • Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington
  • Julia Morison Petar/James Gallery, Auckland
  • Julia Morison Elva Bett Gallery, Wellington
  • 1979
  • Three Painters Barry Lett Gallery, Auckland
  • Show the Flag National Gallery, Wellington
  • Drawing ’79’ CSA Gallery, Christchurch
  • Paintings: Contrastare and Black Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
  • 1978
  • Fifteen Manawatu Artists Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North
  • Julia Morison The Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
  • Julia Morison Victoria University of Wellington Library
  • 1977
  • Works on Paper Bob McMurray Gallery, Palmerston North
  • Julia Morison Thompson House, Levin
  • 1976
  • Align to a line Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
  • The Wanganui Lions AA Travel Art Award (toured)
  • New Zealand Drawing ’76 Auckland City Art Gallery
  • All the same... Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
  • 1975
  • Drawings and Small Works Brooke Gifford Gallery, Christchurch
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1985, 9900x3520, Gold paint/leaf & excrement on canvas board

Exhibitions: Content/Context: A survey of recent New Zealand art National Gallery of New Zealand (1986), Menagerie Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch (2001), Paintings and Drawings Centre Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamilton (1985), Three Works RKS Art, Auckland (1985)

Location: Christchurch Art Gallery collection.