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Joyce Morris

Artist Statement

We cannot look upon nude art without seeing a reflection of ourselves. Our varying degrees of self consciousness or human body experience determines how we might feel about what’s before us. My objective is to make a viewer pause with wonder.

From Crawford Park, MB near Riding Mountain National Park

Artist Bio 

ART EDUCATION

  • St. Johns’s H.S. Wpg, MB
  • McGill University major printmaking 1979
  • Famous Writers Sc of Am.
  • Toronto School of Arts 1980
  • Open studio, Toronto 1991.96.98
  • Sheridan College 89.-91
  • Fleming College 2008

ACTIVITIES

  • Executive Print and Drawing Council of Canada
  • Exec  Mississauga Arts  
  • Co-founder Image Matrix print collective
  • Instructor; Sheridan College, St. Lawrence College
  • Resident artist Fernie, B.C. Arts Station.
  • Marketing Open Studio Toronto
  • Poetry Feminie Magazine
  • Poetry; Evidence of Love:     Suggestions of Hate
  • Beaumont Mill Studio, Glen Williams, ON
  • Joyce Morris Studio Gallery, Brockville
  • Go Figure Life Drawing –Burritt’s Rapids, ON 13 years

 

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • Region of Peel juried show- Best print 1985
  • Artist Abroad Grant to Holland 1987
  • Carnegie Hall, Dundas,On. Honourable Mention
  • Color and Form Society   Toronto, honourable mention 1992
  • Contribution to Arts Award, City of Mississauga
  • Contribution to Arts Award Fernie, B.C.

 

COLLECTIONS

  • University of Guelph Forestry Division
  • Cornwall Reg. Art Gallery
  • Art Gallery of Mississauga
  • Baker Salmona Architects,  
  • Alan Stevens Corp West  Hazelton, USA
  • C.D. Barcados, Toronto,  .
  • Fisker Industries, Georgetown, On
  • Baker and McKenzie Lawyers, Dallas, USA
  • Elkview Coal Corp, Sparwood, B.C.
  • Mountain Air Estates Fernie, B.C.
  • Fernie B.C, Library
  • Women’s Resource Center, Fernie, B.C.
  • MDS. Laboratories, Toronto, On.
  • Phoenix Professional Group, Mississauga, On
  • Toronto School of Business
  • Winchester Hospital
  • Brockville Gen Hosp
  • Elmwood
  • Neepawa Public Library
  • Caledon Laboratories Georgetown, On
  • LG Realty Brockville, On
  • Erickson Library, MB.
  • CPHC Prescott, On.
  • Athens Med. Center, On
  • Bookfinder, Kingston.
  • 204 private collections

SHOWS

  • 1985.87.93 - Region of Peel Gallery
  • 1984-86 - Mississauga Library
  • 1986 - Alma Gallery, Toronto
  • 1987 Ravenhof Art Center, Putte, Holland
  • 1987  Carnegie Gallery, Dundas , On
  • 1990 Fairways Gallery, Mississauga, On
  • 1991 *Columbus Cultural Center Toronto, On
  • 1991 Fernie Arts Station
  • 1991 Rackus Studio, Miss.
  • 1991-1995 Mansfield, On
  • 1993 Georgetown, On    
  • 1994 Erickson \library Mb
  • 1996  Sparwood, B.C.
  • 1995 Fernie Arts Station
  • 1995 Kariya Japan  
  • 1981-95 Skylight Gallery Color and Form, Toronto  
  • 1997 Art Beat Brampton,  
  • 1998 A Space, Toronto
  • 1999  Open Studio, Toronto
  • 1999 Art Gallery of Miss
  • 2003 Cornwall Reg.Gallery
  • 2004 Mill St. Almonte, ON
  • 2005-6 Spencerville Mill
  • 2006  Verb GalleryKingston
  • 2006  Brockville Arts Ctr.
  • 2006 Salon 06, Kingston
  • 2007 St. Lawrence College
  • 2008 Judith Moore Gallery, Merrickville, On
  • 2009 Riverstones Gallery, Burnstown, On
  • 2010  Rockwell Gallery, Ottawa On
  • 2014  Galop Cardinal, On.
  • 2016 Artscene, Spencerville
  • 2017  Merrickville Tour
  • 2018  Merrickville Tour
  • 2019  St. Lawrence College
  • 2020  Medium Effort Art