Perth-based Morris is well known for producing conceptually complex yet visually simple and striking works.
The artist experiences landscape in a corporeal way – he describes the act of tasting the country, of placing stones on his tongue – as a way of embodying the East Pilbara landscape before painting it.
Morris was born in Queensland in 1956. He studied visual arts at the Curtin University of Technology and later went on to teach there and then to lecture at the WA School of Art and Design.
This work is on long-term loan from the Federal Government’s Artbank Collection.
Frank Morris
Tongue – T, 2007
Synthetic polymer paint, lime putty
and plaster on composition board
520mm W x 120mm H x 3mm D
