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

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🍊 About 🍊

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

Working across painting, photography, digital media, and performance, he moves between physical and online spaces. Apps, social media, organisations, and other digital systems become both subjects of his work and spaces in which it is made.

Through merging autofiction, research, interventions, and personas, Morl examines identity-led spaces and social structures, exploring how relationships are shaped by knowledge, access, desire, care, and power.

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Curating an exhibition as a collective online diary
A group exhibition presented as a shared diary between curator and others, exploring the experience of growing up through video games, social media, and dating apps. The project examines how visual communication and technology may support disabled people to socialise to seek sexual liberation.

Digital tapestries of identity performance
Creating digital tapestries using photography and costume performance, reflecting on messaging exchanges on apps, questioning LGBT cultures reliance on body types as a source of identity, validation, and the friction caused through insecurities.

Queer dating app meets as artistic research
Using queer dating apps beyond inaccessible queer spaces, to meet people and create paintings shaped by touch, viewed through a disabled and neurodivergent processing lens.

Pandemic-era portraiture from live app interviews
Interviewing men via dating apps during the pandemic and translating these conversations 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 videos from interviews with autistic people and gaming servers during the COVID lockdown. The work reflects on the exclusion of certain art forms in galleries and of disabled people in identity-focused spaces.

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

Paintings reflecting on violence against young gay men
Early paintings based on autobiography and photographs from public chatroom threads and the news, painted with gym protein to explore violence towards young gay men online.

Room installations reflecting on young male suicide
Room-scale installations featuring sculptural forms cast from medical and health objects mimicking bodies and torsos. Finished with industrial materials, the works reflect identity loss 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, sculpture, photography, digital media and performance, 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?’ marked their first public artwork for Focal Point Gallery’s Railway Bridge commission 2022. In 2018, they undertook ‘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