Despard is proud to present Anne Morrison’s new exhibition The Crossings, where she explores the lost female stories in our Maritime History.
‘The Crossings’ comprises a suite of digital prints based historical and contemporary photographs of women, boats and artefacts associated with the sea, rivers and waterways. Watercolours are layered with detailed drawings and digital manipulation techniques. People and places seem to fade in and out of view, in an attempt to suggest the experience of sifting through recorded history. Fluid watercolours flood the surface of primed paper and as the water evaporates Morrison works back into the patterns left behind seeking to evoke a sense of presence through absence as the figures and objects remain visible only as a subtle trace, a watermark. Droplets of pigment disperse through streams of water creating tributaries relating to the ebb and flow of the tides, nets and networks. Fine line drawings of and references to historical maps, bathymetric charts and photographs are layered behind and over the figures and objects. This process of layering and re-layering visual information digitally, echo how easily fragments of history can be lost and buried, and yet sometimes something is found; a trace, an object, an image that reconnects the past to the present.
This exhibition is an extension and further exploration of ‘beneath the waterline’ a project carried out in 2017, where Morrison responded to the absence of female voices in Tasmanian maritime history, through exploring the collection of the Bass Strait Maritime Centre.
Click here for Dr. Jane Deeth essay on The Crossings by Anne Morrison…. Jane Deeth_Morrison
The Crossings….
ANNE MORRISON
#1 Harvesting | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 42 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$650.00 (unframed)
Anne Morrison 2018
#18 Storm Bay
digital print on composite aluminium
60 x 80 cm framed
edition of 5 . SOLD 1/5
$2,900.00
Anne Morrison
#22 Portside
digital print on composite aluminium
32 x 44 cm
$695.00
Anne Morrison 2018
#40 Cray pots
digital print on aluminium
42 x 60 cm framed
edition of 5
$1,850.00
Anne Morrison 2018
#38 collecting I - ochre net 2
digital print on aluminium composite
30 x 21 cm ed of $550.00 UF
Anne Morrison 2018
#5 Clinker digital print on composite aluminium
42 x 63 cm ed of 5 Framed
$1,850.00
ANNE MORRISON
#3 At Sea 2018
digital print on aluminium
edition of 5 + 1 AP
$675.00
ANNE MORRISON 2018
#7 The Shallows
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 50 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
Framed
$1,500.00
ANNE MORRISON 2017
#28 The Navigator I
digital print on composite aluminium
60 x 42 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP) | SOLD 1/5
Framed
$1,850.00
ANNE MORRISON
#43 Tracing Distance | 2017
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 21 cm
signed verso | edition of 4 (+1AP)
$550.00 (unframed)
ANNE MORRISON 2018
#27 The Narrows
digital print on composite aluminium
40 x 56 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
Framed
$1,650.00
ANNE MORRISON 2018
#20 Navigation
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 30 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP) $595.00
Anne Morrison 2018
#19 Mapping
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 42 cm Unframed
edition of 5
$675.00
ANNE MORRISON
#21 Navigator III | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 21 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$550.00 (unframed)
ANNE MORRISON 2018
#6 The Crossing II
digital print on composite aluminium
100 x 120 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
Framed - SOLD 1/5
$3,950.00
ANNE MORRISON
#8 Parade 1945 (AANS) | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
40 x 50 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$1,650.00 (framed)
ANNE MORRISON 2017
#11 Embarkation 1941
digital print on composite aluminium
40 x 60 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP) | SOLD 2/5
Framed
$1,850.00
ANNE MORRISON 2018
# 9 Slipway
digital print on composite aluminium
40 x 35 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
Framed
$1,575.00
Anne Morrison 2018
#10 The Call
digital print on composite aluminium
40 x 36 cm framed . SOLD 1/5
$1,575.00
ANNE MORRISON 2018
#4 Casting digital print on composite aluminium 30 x 21 cm signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP) | | SOLD 1/5 Unframed $550.00
ANNE MORRISON
#2 Annie Watt
2018
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 24 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
Unframed
$575.00
ANNE MORRISON
#42 Untold Stories I | 2017
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 21 cm
signed verso | edition of 4 (+1AP)
$550.00 (unframed)
ANNE MORRISON
#35 Waterline (triptych) | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
23 x 40 cm, 33 x 40 cm, 27 x 40 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$2,300.00
ANNE MORRISON
#35 Waterline (triptych) | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
23 x 40 cm, 33 x 40 cm, 27 x 40 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$2,300.00
ANNE MORRISON
#35 Waterline (triptych) | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
23 x 40 cm, 33 x 40 cm, 27 x 40 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$2,300.00 (framed)
ANNE MORRISON
#30 The Strait | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 42 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$650.00 (unframed)
Anne Morrison 2018
#17 night crossing I
digital print on composite aluminium
100 x 100 cm framed SOLD 1/5
ed of 5 $3,500.00
ANNE MORRISON 2018
#12 The Navigator Blue Print
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 21 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
Unframed
$550.00
Anne Morrison 2018
#36 Night Crossing II 60 x 90 cm
digital print on aluminium composite
ed of 5 framed
$2,950.00
ANNE MORRISON
#29 The Nets (blue) | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 22 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$550.00 (unframed)
ANNE MORRISON
#33 Adrift 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
42 x 60 cm
ed. of 5 + 1 AP
Framed
$1,850.00
ANNE MORRISON
#26 Creel | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
42 x 30 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$675.00 (framed)
#25 The Catch | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
40 x 72 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$2,500.00 (framed)
#24 7 Years | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 22 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$550.00
Anne Morrison 2018
#37 bowhead (Bark Saint James) washday
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 21 cm ed of 5 $550.00 UF
ANNE MORRISON
#41 Lost and Forgotton | 2017
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 21 cm
signed verso | edition of 4 (+1AP)
$550.00 (unframed)
ANNE MORRISON
#15 Locket | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 25 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$575.00 (unframed)
ANNE MORRISON
#34 The Nets II (harbour) | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 21 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP) | SOLD 1/5
$550.00 (unframed)
ANNE MORRISON
#14 Dragnets | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 21 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$550.00 (unframed)
ANNE MORRISON
#31 Watercraft | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
30 x 42 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP) | SOLD 1/5
$650.00 (unframed)
ANNE MORRISON
#13 On Shore | 2018
digital print on composite aluminium
40 x 30 cm
signed verso | edition of 5 (+1AP)
$650.00 (unframed)
Anne Morrison 2018
#32 Woolomi
digital print on composite aluminium
42 x 56 cm framed
$1,500.00
ANNE MORRISON
Aunt Jean
2017
Digital Print on composite aluminium sheet
30 x 21cm
$550.00
Edition of 5
ANNE MORRISON
The Collector
2017
Digital Print on composite aluminium sheet
30 x 21 cm
$550.00
Edition of 4
ANNE MORRISON
The Explorer
2017
Digital Print on composite aluminium sheet
30 x 21 cm
$550
Edition of 4
ANNE MORRISON
Uncharted #2
2017
Digital Print on composite aluminium sheet
30 x 21 cm
$550.00
Edition of 4
Sold 2/4
Previous works…
ANNE MORRISON
Networks II (finalist Bay of Fires Art Prize 2016)
2015
digital print on composite aluminium
80 x 120 cm
signed verso | limited edition
$2,500.00 (unframed)
ANNE MORRISON
Colony
2015
Acrylic on canvas
137 x 122cm
$8500.00
ANNE MORRISON
Beyond the Shallows
2015
Acrylic on canvas
137 x 122cm
$8500.00
ANNE MORRISON
Tho lost to sight…(B),
2013
acrylic and watercolour on paper
87 x 87 cm each (unframed) (triptych)
signed verso
$4,950.00 (each)
ANNE MORRISON
Tho lost to sight…(C),
2013
acrylic and watercolour on paper
87 x 87 cm each (unframed) (triptych)
signed verso
$4,950.00 (each)
ANNE MORRISON
Tho lost to sight…(A),
2013
acrylic and watercolour on paper
87 x 87 cm each (unframed) (triptych)
signed verso
$4,950.00 (each)
