Up Close with Julia Morison
About Julia Morison
Born 1952 in Pahiatua, New Zealand
Lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand
Julia Morison works in a variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture and installation. In a career spanning over three decades, she has established a unique background to her practice – an artistic vocabulary based upon mystical orders of knowledge such as Hermeticism, the Kabbalah and alchemy. Morison has long worked to a ten-by-ten pictorial structure that became an ‘unconscious skeleton’ for her work. Geometric forms have recently become connected with symbolic references in her work, mixing formal abstraction with surrealism. The Myriorama works, started in 2008, are comprised of large-scale modules that reference a Victorian parlour game in which illustrated cards were arranged in many different ways. By using multiple panels, Morison invites the viewer to imagine a similar myriad of configurations. She has made a continuation of this series, Myriorama#7: Network (2010), specially for the Concert Hall Northern Foyer in the Sydney
Opera House.