Coco Morris
Coco Morris’ work is about the practice of painting, it explores colour-form relationships and the tensions and boundaries that exist between different painting languages and genres. This means the subject matter, style of painting, point of inspiration and the process can be quite different between each painting.
Coco’s paintings can be improvised and experimental or thoroughly planned out. They move between styles and subject matter. Despite the variation in approaches the works do have reoccurring compositions and motifs that are echoed across Coco’s practice. All of the paintings emerge and are resolved through the action of painting. The works occupy a space where opposing narratives sit together; abstraction and figuration, minimalist and abstract expressionist references, planned and experimental. Scale, subject matters, colours and the emotional tone of the works are different which presents curatorial contrasts and connections across paintings.
Compositionally the paintings are balanced – but ever so slightly off – awkward shapes don’t line up, as if the image has been agitated. The colour/form relationships are at times bold, using opaque and clashing colours, but they can also be very subtle as light and surface come into play. A single colour might be applied in a wash to create different tones and luminosity, or used impasto to give saturation and body. They interact to create visual sensations; optical illusions of backlit and absent colours and vibrating edges. Layers and textures create painterly depth and a sense of weight giving these paintings a tactile quality with the hand of the artist evident across all the works.
See Coco’s work below!
