Victoria Morton
FOR LA FETICHE
Victoria Morton’s art has encompassed painting, sculptural assemblages, photography, and sound. Her recent paintings vary in scale, opacity, colour and spatiality, each composition intricately and intuitively developed. Informed by music, colour perception and the everyday ‘stream of consciousness’, and drawing on personal narratives and historical and cultural references, Morton’s works explore unfolding psychological experience.
Victoria Morton, Installation view, 'SLEEP LINE',
The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane Bricks Space, 2021
Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
Photo: Patrick Jameson.
Morton lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland, and Fossombrone, Italy. She studied painting and mixed media at Glasgow School of art, 1989 - 1995. In the late 90’s she made collaborative installation, film and performance with Elizabeth Go. In 2009 she was artist in residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston and had the inaugural exhibition of the Renzo Piano-designed contemporary gallery there. Morton was a member of the art/music group Muscles of Joy until 2014 and has since played extensively with the band Sound of Yell. She currently makes music with artist Luke Fowler, as SOTTO VOCE. Painting remains at the centre of her practice.
Watch CALE a film by SOTTO VOCE for LA FETICHE here
Victoria Morton, Delay Dispersion, 2014, Oil on canvas, 300 x 250 x 4 cm
Installation view, The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane, Glasgow, 2014
Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
Photo: Max Slaven
Significant solo exhibitions have been at Modern Institute, Glasgow, Sadie Coles HQ, London, Rat Hole, Tokyo, and Inverleith House and Fruitmarket, Edinburgh. She was included in ‘Surface Work’, a survey of female abstraction at Victoria Miro in London, and is currently in ‘Abstraction Now’, Corn Hall, Diss UK. Among her commissioned installations is ‘Antiphonic Waves’, at the Royal College of Music in London.
Victoria Morton, Installation view, ‘Treat Fever with Fever’,
The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow, 2019
Courtesy of the Artist and The Modern Institute/ Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow
Photo: Patrick Jameson
Photographed here by Alexander James-Aylin, Victoria is captured below in her sunlit studio sharing her well loved treasures, varying from the very first LF collection to her latest finds from SS22.
VICTORIA wears the MITSOUKO shirt and MARSHA jeans
VICTORIA wears the JANE blouse and DAVID trousers
VICTORIA wears the JOSEF vest, JANE blouse and DAVID trousers
VICTORIA wears the POISON IVY rain coat
