Trish Morrissey at CLOSE: Solo Show
Exhibition: 20 April - 15 June 2024
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Thursday 10am - 3pm
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Friday 10am - 3pm
Saturday 10am - 1pm
We are delighted to present this solo exhibition by acclaimed artist Trish Morrissey, bringing together photographic work from her well-known series Front (2005-2007), Psycho Beach (2008-2010) The Failed Realist (2011) and The Successful Realist (2017), alongside new works which have their first showing here at CLOSE Gallery.
Morrissey’s multi-award winning short film Eupnea (2023), takes us on a surreal journey through life, death, loss, longing and maternal desire, one breath, one heartbeat at a time. Winning the Best Artist’s Short at this year's Berlin Indie Film Festival, Eupnea has continued its success at multiple national and international film festivals.
Trish Morrissey was born in Dublin, Ireland and now lives and works in Somerset. Her practice combines performance, photography, and film, using a process of archival research as well as her own biography in order to develop and play real and fictional characters, exploring the roles of women, the family and the body.
The work is deeply sensitive and offers a subtle dialogue around first-hand experiences throughout the milestones of growing up, noting stories told or interpreted through family photographs and histories both past, present and ongoing. There is a quirky humour edging on squeamish subject matter which creates a sense of tension and suspension. Here we see an artist collaborating with family and communities to produce an inclusive whole experience. She achieves this through astute observations of human behaviour and attention to detail, a precise master of composition, she interprets and sets theatrical dramatic scenarios for us to decode.
Many of the artist’s works are held in public and private collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Michael Wilson Centre for Photography, London; Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol; Gösta Serlachius Fine Arts Foundation, Finland; and the Bohusläns Museum, Sweden.
The artist’s most recent and critically acclaimed exhibition ‘Autofictions: Twenty Years of Photography and Film’, which toured Photo Museum, Ireland; Impressions Gallery, Bradford and Serlachius Museum, Finland was listed in The Guardian’s top 10 photographic exhibitions of 2023. We welcome you to delve deeper into Morrissey's work with the fully-illustrated ‘Autofictions’ catalogue, available in the CLOSE Studio. As well as a new critical text by writer and curator Hettie Judah which you can read by following the link below.
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Trish Morrissey, 'Autofictions' catalogue
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Trish Morrissey, 'Autofictions' Catalogue, Special Edition
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Trish Morrissey, Joanna Southcott's Box, 2020
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Trish Morrissey, Self Portrait with Snail, 3rd June, 2020, 2020
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Trish Morrissey, Gower, 2008-2010
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Trish Morrissey, Dughort, 2008-2010
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Trish Morrissey, Dookinella, 2008-2010
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Trish Morrissey, Keem Bay , 2008-2010
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Trish Morrissey, Hayley Coles June 17th 2006, 2006
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Trish Morrissey, Hayley Atwere, (nee Coles), July 17th, 2016, 2016
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Trish Morrissey, 11th June 2017, 2017
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Trish Morrissey, 10th May 2023, 2023
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Trish Morrissey, 16th May 2022 , 2022
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Trish Morrissey, 15th September 2023, 2023
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Trish Morrissey, 12th March 2017, 2017
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Trish Morrissey, 14th October 2021, 2021
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Trish Morrissey, 19th September 2022, 2022
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Trish Morrissey, 20th April 2020, 2020
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Trish Morrissey, 6th May 2018, 2018
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Trish Morrissey, 24th June 2019, 2019
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Trish Morrissey, 17th May 2021, 2021
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Trish Morrissey, 30th June 2022 , 2022
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Trish Morrissey, 30th March 2019, 2019
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Trish Morrissey, 23rd September 2018, 2018
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Trish Morrissey, A Ghost Darker than the Night, 2017
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Trish Morrissey, Bitzer, 2011
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Trish Morrissey, A Wild Dog Chasing a London Bird, 2011
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Trish Morrissey, Clown Face, 2017
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Trish Morrissey, Cyclops Twins, 2017
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Trish Morrissey, Emoji Love Eyes, 2017
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Trish Morrissey, Ginger, 2017
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Trish Morrissey, Ladybird, 2011
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Trish Morrissey, Life and Death, 2017
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Trish Morrissey, Miranda Sings, 2017
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Trish Morrissey, Owl, 2017
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Trish Morrissey, Party Girl, 2011
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Paul Carey-Kent interviews Trish Morrissey
1 May 2024On the opening day of our current show 'Trish Morrissey at CLOSE', open until 15 June 2024, we were delighted to have art writer and...Read more -
Hettie Judah on Trish Morrissey | Among Women (in mulieribus)
Essay by writer and curator Hettie Judah on Trish Morrissey's exhibition at CLOSE 25 Apr 2024Hettie Judah is chief art critic at the British daily paper The i, a regular contributor to The Guardian’s arts pages, and a columnist for...Read more