David Morrish—M.F.A. (1985) University of Calgary, Alberta and BFA, Hons, University of Manitoba in Winnipeg (1981), retired Full Professor of Art at the Grenfell Campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland, having taught photography in the BFA-VA program from 1989 until 2016. He is co-author with Marlene MacCallum of Copper Plate Photogravure, Focal Press, 2003.
Morrish has exhibited traditional copper-plate photogravure prints since 1996, nationally and internationally: Japan, Taiwan, China, S. Korea, Thailand, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, USA, England, Italy, and Canada. Notable photogravure work includes portraits of distressed taxidermy and landscape panoramas of the limestone alvars of Newfoundland and Ireland. His artist’s limited-edition book-works, GAZE and DIED use copper-plate photogravure and letterpress under his imprint: DeadCat Press. DIED includes a rare four-plate CMYK color copper-plate photogravure. Recent research explored animal and human mortality, faux biography, provenance, collections, and the museum archive through the construction of an immersive Wunderkammer, The Lyric Cranium, that remains the catalyst for on-going works on paper, artistamps, and other ephemera and mixed media work. For more, visit davidmorrish.com and @deadcatpress on Instagram.
Since 2016, Morrish set up a fully equipped woodworking shop and since 2021 started to turn wooden bowls and hollow forms on his large new wood lathe. Woodturning is currently the focus of his creative practice.
Morrish lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario, where with his wife, Marlene, they set up their artists’ studio and print shop.
Photo and print-based artwork.
346 Bloomfield Main Street, Bloomfield
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