Education
Morison completed a Diploma in Graphic Design from Wellington Polytechnic School of Design, Massey University in 1972. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 1975.
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Julia Morison
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Morison was awarded the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship in 1988 and undertook the Moët & Chandon contemporary art residency in Avize, France in 1990. After the year long residency she remained in France for ten years. In 1999 Morison became Senior Lecturer in Painting at the University of Canterbury, a position she held until 2007.
A major survey exhibition on Morison’s work, A loop around a loop: Julia Morison was organised by the Christchurch Art Gallery and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in 2006, and curated by Felicity Milburn and Justin Paton.
In 2012 Morison was inducted into the Massey University College of Creative Arts’ Hall of Fame. In the same year her exhibition Meet me on the other side showed at Christchurch Art Gallery and City Gallery Wellington.
In 2013 her public sculpture Tree Houses for Swamp Dwellers was installed in central Christchurch as part of the SCAPE public art project A response to the devastating Christchurch earthquakes, the work is designed to be a permanent but relocatable feature of the city.
Gina Irish, "My Place: Julia Morison", Art New Zealand, no 109, Summer 2003-2004 John Hurrell, "Morison Sculpture in Auckland", EyeContact, 29 November 2011 Creon Upton, "Morison’s Plaster Wall Sculptures", EyeContact, 22 September 2013 Andrew Paul Wood, "Morison Tree Houses in Christchurch", EyeContact, 12 October 2013 Mark Amery, "Short Shrift", The Big Idea, 8 October 2014 Allan Smith, "Julia Morison"s Headcases", EyeContact, 9 April 2015.
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