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George Morl (b. Basildon 1994)
Now lives and works in the multiverse.

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George Morl explores how technology shapes human behaviour, focusing on self-image, relationships, and communication.

Working on his own and with others, he uses painting, digital media, performance, and curating to move between physical and online spaces. Social media, video games, digital systems, and organisations become both subjects of his work and spaces in which it is made.

Through these spaces, he combines autobiography, others’ accounts, collaborative research, intervention, and fiction to examine how relationships are shaped by visibility and value.

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Curating an exhibition as a collective online diary
A group exhibition presented as a shared co-authored diary between curator and others, exploring the creation of an avatar and growing up through video games, social media, and dating apps. The project examines how visual communication and technology may support or impact disabled people from socialising to exploring autonomy.

Digital tapestries of identity performance
Creating digital tapestry scenes through photography and costume performance, based on restaging messages and interactions on dating apps. The works reflect on ‘body types’ within LGBT cultures as sources of objectification and validation, and the tensions and insecurities this can create.

Pandemic-era portraiture from live app interviews
Interviewing men through dating apps during the pandemic and transforming these exchanges into painted portraits. The work explores self-representation online and the live creation of body images through feedback.

Co-producing public artwork in supported educational settings
Collaborating with Supported Educational Schools to co-create public art that critiques the accessibility of video games for disabled users.

Video scripts from autistic voices during lockdown
Producing narrated videos from restaged interviews with autistic people within gaming servers during the COVID lockdown. The work reflects on the exclusion of non-traditional art forms and disabled people in galleries.

Paintings reflecting on violence against young gay men
Early student paintings combining autobiography and imagery from newspapers and television, painted with gym protein to explore violence towards young gay men online seeking intimacy.

Investigating incel subcultures through chatrooms
Creating avatars and immersing in online chatrooms to explore links between ‘incel culture’ and steroid use, later restaging these as photographic installations.

Room installations reflecting on young male suicide
Room-scale installations featuring sculptural forms cast from medical and health objects which mimick bodies. Made with industrial materials, the works reflect on masculinity and loneliness within post-industrial towns.

🍊 Experience :) 🍊

George Morl (b.1994) is an artist and avatar based in Colchester. They currently are Programme Manager at Firstsite in Colchester, and were appointed the Jerwood Arts Newlyn Residency (2021-22) at Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange in Penzance. Through painting, digital media, performance, and curating, Morl explores how technology shapes human behaviour. Morl received their BFA from University for the Creative Arts in 2016 and MFA in 2018. They have curated exhibitions such as Voyager 2000 (2025), Lunar Lullabies (2024) and the first solo presentation of ‘Leonora Carrington: Avatars & Alliances’ in East Anglia (2024).

‘Essex @way from keyboard?’ was their first public artwork for Focal Point Gallery’s Railway Bridge commission 2022. In 2018, they staged ‘Precious Boys’ a solo intervention at Southend Museums responding to the museum’s collection, exploring body images of men through history and contemporary online culture. Work has been shown at Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2022), Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Penzance (2021), Tate Exchange, London (2019), Southend Museums (2018), Turner Contemporary, Margate (2016), UCA, Canterbury (2016). Recipient of New Histories, Cambridge (2022), Firstsite Award, Colchester (2019), TOW Residency, Southend (2020), and awarded the UCA Darren Henley Scholarship, Canterbury (2016- 2018). In 2020 Morl was a Peer to Peer UK/HK nominee and shortlisted for Platform Award 2016.


Updated 1 January 2026
All works and text © George Morl 2026