Simon Morley  
         
 

 

Public and Corporate Collections

Akxo Nobel, Holland
Cityside Development, London
Gyeonggi Museum, Republic of Korea
Musée Romain Rolland, Clamecy, France
Sothebys Institute of Art, London
Tate Gallery Library, London
Victoria and Albert Museum Library, London
Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria

Public Art Projects

2005

Peckham Library, in association with MoCA, London, funded by Peckham Council, London

2000

High Street Redevelopment Project, Reading (shortlisted proposal)

 

Commission: Contemporary Art Society, London and Reading Borough Council

1999

Brick Lane, London

 

Commission: Cityside Development

 

St. Georges Cemetery Garden, Bloomsbury, London (unrealised commission)

 

Commission: Camden Council/Heritage Lottery Fund

1998

Museum Street, Bloomsbury, London

 

Commission: Above/Below



Awards, Residencies & Fellowships

2010 Artist in Residence, Gyeonggi Creation Center, South Korea
2008 British Council Travel Award
  Artist in Residence Program, Paik Hae Young gallery, Soeul, Korea

2005

Artist in Residence, Centre d’Art Contemporain

 

Parc Saint Leger, Pougues-les-Eaux, Burgundy, France

2004

British Council Travel Award (Japan)

 

Abbey Fellow in Painting, The British School in Rome

2002/03

Artist-in-Residence, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria

2000

Elephant Trust Grant

1998

London Arts Board Grant



Utopia Press (Simon Morley) Publications
Exhibition catalogues and Artists Books designed by Simon Morley

2010 The Sublime: Documents of Contemporary Art (Whitechapel Art Gallery/MIT Press, 2010), edited by Simon Morley

2007-8

The English Series, essay by Gabriel Coxhead, published in collaboration with Art First

2007

A Short History of Dutch Painting (Part II), essays by Inke van Rijn and Simon Morley. published in collaboration with Metis_NL

 

Simon Morley’s Classic Japanese Movies, essays by Simon Pummell and Simon Morley, published in collaboration with Taguchi Fine Art

2005

Rossa, essays by Omar Calabrese and Simon Morley, published in association with Galleria Spazia, Bologna

 

Reading Room, essays by Michael Petry, Jerzy Kierkuc-Bielinski. published in association with MOCA London

2004

The Book Show, essay by Simon Morley, published in association with The Nunnery, London

 

Post Card: Six Messages from the Twentieth Century, published in association with Percy Miller Gallery, London

 

A Short History of Japanese Fiction (in translation), essay by Jemima Montagu, published in association with Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo

2003

The Unfortunate Tourist of Helvellyn and his Faithful Dog, published in association with The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria

 

Winner Northern Arts Catalogue Award, shortlisted for The Art Newspaper Catalogue of the Year Award

 

Elegy, with Jack Mapanje and Robert Woof, published in association with The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria

2002

Italian Holiday, essays by Alain de Botton, Neal Brown, Chiara Guidi, published in association with Zero arte contemporanea, Piacenza

1999

Collected Works of George Orwell and other Paintings, essays by Simon Morley, Neal Brown, published in association with Percy Miller Gallery