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George Morl
b. 1994 Basildon, UK
Artist, poet, and writer based in South Essex
Current Projects
2020 - Present - Synapses, Sonnets, Self
2020 - Present - Vigils, Votives, Villages
Education
2018 - University for the Creative Arts, MA Fine Art
2016 - University Grimbsy, Health & Social Qualifications
2016 - University for the Creative Arts, BA (Hons) Fine Art
2013 - South Essex College, Foundation Studies & Drawing Award
Awards
2019 - Firstsite Collectors’ Group Award
2019 - Contemporary Visual Artwork Network (CVAN) Dialogues Towards Change Bursary
2019 - Jerwood Bursary, Shortlisted
2016 - Platform Award, Selected
2016 - Darren Henley Scholarship
2016 - Vice Chancellor Award, University for the Creative Arts (UCA)
2016 - CRATE Graduate Award, Shortlisted
2016 - Canterbury Arts Council Award, Shortlisted
Collections
Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend
Southend Museum, Southend
University for the Creative Arts , Canterbury
Orange Orient Foundation, Basildon
Private Collections
Solo Exhibitions
2018 - Precious Boys, Southend Museums, Southend-On-Sea, UK
2016 - Paradise Hotel, UCA, Canterbury, UK
2014 - Admiration + Adoration, St Catherines Church, Wickford, UK
Group Exhibitions
2019 - We Are All, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2018 - UCA MA Degree Show, UCA, Canterbury, UK
2018 - Interim, Customs House, Folkestone, UK
2016 - Platform 2016, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2016 - UCA BA Degree Show, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK
2013 - Wall of Death, Kursaal, Southend-on-Sea, UK
Curated Exhibitions
2018 - Precious Boys, Southend Museums, Southend-On-Sea, UK
2016 - Paradise Hotel, UCA, Canterbury, UK
Lectures - Talks - Symposiums
2019 - Graduate Mobility, Reading International, Tate Modern, London, UK
2014 - Admiration, Adoration, St Catherines Church, Wickford, UK
Research
2018 - Disposition of Currency, Evaluating and investigating performativity and affect theories of digital platforms in relation to male body images and intimacies, 27 August 2018
2018 - Lonely Heart’s Club, Communion and melancholy in the digital arena of simulation as the artifice and construction of affection; pursuits in artificial acts of intimacy, 15 December 2017
2017 - Precious Boys: Pubescent Plumes under the mastery of Bodily Simulacra, Male body image through the representation of man under the evolution of ‘phantom-muscularity’ in digital media, 26 April 2017
2016 - MotheredCrest: Observing The Flight of the Abstruse Angel in Seeking a Surrogate Mother, Art as a transitional object and as ‘surrogate mother’ with references to autism and pyschoneuroses, 04 Feb 2016
Artist Publications
2021 - Precious Boys: Flight of the Abstruse Angels, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk (FC)
2021 - Specimens of Sorrow, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk (FC)
2020 - Accounts of an Empath & Electronic Invitations, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk (FC)
2018 - Precious Boys (Digital File), Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk
2018 - Pubescent Plumes#2, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk
2017 - Pubescent Plumes, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk
2016 - Vials of Vigils, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk
2016 - Sepia Solace, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk
Articles
2018 - Platform Award Alumni Stories: George Morl, CVAN Instagram, 13 May 2019 (Link)
2018 - Platform Alumni Takeover: George Morl, CVAN Instagram, 28 August 2018
2018 - George Morl: Disposition of Digital Youth, Southend Museums Wordpress, 20 July 2018, (Link)
2018 - George Morl: Precious Boys, Southend Museums Wordpress, 20 July 2018, (Link)
2018 - George Morl: Orange Boy, Southend Museums Wordpress, 19 July 2018
Press
2019 - George Morl: Platform Focus, Contemporary Visual Art Network, 30 April 2019 (Link)
2019 - Art Therapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital by George Morl, Great Ormond Street Hospital Teen Blog, 2019
2018 - George Morl, Precious Boys at Southend Museum, Echo, 22 August 2018
2018 - George Morl’s Precious Boys at Southend Museum, CVAN South East, 10 July 2018 (Link)
2017 - Platform Awards Stories: George Morl, Turner Contemporary, 02 - 03 October 2017 2016 - Former Patient’s Work Exploring Autism & Child and Adolescent Mental Health In Art Exhibited at Turner Contemporary, Great Ormond Street Hospital Blog, September 2016
2016 - Graduate’s Work Chosen to be Exhibited At Turner Contemporary, University for the Creative Arts, 20 September 2016
2016 - Young Basildon Artist Wins Exhibition Spot and Award Nomination, Basildon Today, 23 August 2016
2016 - Turner Gallery Artist George Says Installation Marks Gravestones for Young Suicides, Yellow Advertiser, 19 August 2016
2016 - ‘Platform 2016’, CVAN, August 2016
Catalogues
2018 - UCA MA Degree Show, UCA: Canterbury, UK
2016 - UCA BA Degree Show, UCA: Canterbury, UK
Digital Platforms
︎ www.georgemorl.com
︎ www.instagram.com/edvardoshadalow
︎ george_morl@hotmail.co.uk
Updated 15 January 2020
All works and text © George Morl 2020
George Morl
b. 1994 Basildon, UK
Artist, poet, and writer based in South Essex
Current Projects
2020 - Present - Synapses, Sonnets, Self
2020 - Present - Vigils, Votives, Villages
Education
2018 - University for the Creative Arts, MA Fine Art
2016 - University Grimbsy, Health & Social Qualifications
2016 - University for the Creative Arts, BA (Hons) Fine Art
2013 - South Essex College, Foundation Studies & Drawing Award
Awards
2019 - Firstsite Collectors’ Group Award
2019 - Contemporary Visual Artwork Network (CVAN) Dialogues Towards Change Bursary
2019 - Jerwood Bursary, Shortlisted
2016 - Platform Award, Selected
2016 - Darren Henley Scholarship
2016 - Vice Chancellor Award, University for the Creative Arts (UCA)
2016 - CRATE Graduate Award, Shortlisted
2016 - Canterbury Arts Council Award, Shortlisted
Collections
Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend
Southend Museum, Southend
University for the Creative Arts , Canterbury
Orange Orient Foundation, Basildon
Private Collections
Solo Exhibitions
2018 - Precious Boys, Southend Museums, Southend-On-Sea, UK
2016 - Paradise Hotel, UCA, Canterbury, UK
2014 - Admiration + Adoration, St Catherines Church, Wickford, UK
Group Exhibitions
2019 - We Are All, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
2018 - UCA MA Degree Show, UCA, Canterbury, UK
2018 - Interim, Customs House, Folkestone, UK
2016 - Platform 2016, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2016 - UCA BA Degree Show, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK
2013 - Wall of Death, Kursaal, Southend-on-Sea, UK
Curated Exhibitions
2018 - Precious Boys, Southend Museums, Southend-On-Sea, UK
2016 - Paradise Hotel, UCA, Canterbury, UK
Lectures - Talks - Symposiums
2019 - Graduate Mobility, Reading International, Tate Modern, London, UK
2014 - Admiration, Adoration, St Catherines Church, Wickford, UK
Research
2018 - Disposition of Currency, Evaluating and investigating performativity and affect theories of digital platforms in relation to male body images and intimacies, 27 August 2018
2018 - Lonely Heart’s Club, Communion and melancholy in the digital arena of simulation as the artifice and construction of affection; pursuits in artificial acts of intimacy, 15 December 2017
2017 - Precious Boys: Pubescent Plumes under the mastery of Bodily Simulacra, Male body image through the representation of man under the evolution of ‘phantom-muscularity’ in digital media, 26 April 2017
2016 - MotheredCrest: Observing The Flight of the Abstruse Angel in Seeking a Surrogate Mother, Art as a transitional object and as ‘surrogate mother’ with references to autism and pyschoneuroses, 04 Feb 2016
Artist Publications
2021 - Precious Boys: Flight of the Abstruse Angels, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk (FC)
2021 - Specimens of Sorrow, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk (FC)
2020 - Accounts of an Empath & Electronic Invitations, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk (FC)
2018 - Precious Boys (Digital File), Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk
2018 - Pubescent Plumes#2, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk
2017 - Pubescent Plumes, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk
2016 - Vials of Vigils, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk
2016 - Sepia Solace, Orange Orient Press: Basildon, Uk
Articles
2018 - Platform Award Alumni Stories: George Morl, CVAN Instagram, 13 May 2019 (Link)
2018 - Platform Alumni Takeover: George Morl, CVAN Instagram, 28 August 2018
2018 - George Morl: Disposition of Digital Youth, Southend Museums Wordpress, 20 July 2018, (Link)
2018 - George Morl: Precious Boys, Southend Museums Wordpress, 20 July 2018, (Link)
2018 - George Morl: Orange Boy, Southend Museums Wordpress, 19 July 2018
Press
2019 - George Morl: Platform Focus, Contemporary Visual Art Network, 30 April 2019 (Link)
2019 - Art Therapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital by George Morl, Great Ormond Street Hospital Teen Blog, 2019
2018 - George Morl, Precious Boys at Southend Museum, Echo, 22 August 2018
2018 - George Morl’s Precious Boys at Southend Museum, CVAN South East, 10 July 2018 (Link)
2017 - Platform Awards Stories: George Morl, Turner Contemporary, 02 - 03 October 2017 2016 - Former Patient’s Work Exploring Autism & Child and Adolescent Mental Health In Art Exhibited at Turner Contemporary, Great Ormond Street Hospital Blog, September 2016
2016 - Graduate’s Work Chosen to be Exhibited At Turner Contemporary, University for the Creative Arts, 20 September 2016
2016 - Young Basildon Artist Wins Exhibition Spot and Award Nomination, Basildon Today, 23 August 2016
2016 - Turner Gallery Artist George Says Installation Marks Gravestones for Young Suicides, Yellow Advertiser, 19 August 2016
2016 - ‘Platform 2016’, CVAN, August 2016
Catalogues
2018 - UCA MA Degree Show, UCA: Canterbury, UK
2016 - UCA BA Degree Show, UCA: Canterbury, UK
Digital Platforms
︎ www.georgemorl.com
︎ www.instagram.com/edvardoshadalow
︎ george_morl@hotmail.co.uk
Updated 15 January 2020
All works and text © George Morl 2020