Julia Morison, Omnium Gatherum: 81, 2022. Photo: John Collie
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Julia Morison, Omnium Gatherum: 82, 2022. Photo: John Collie
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Installation view: Omnium Gatherum: 74-79, 2022. Photo: Vicki Piper
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Installation view: Vademecum II, 2021. Photo: Vicki Piper
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Julia Morison, Vademecum II: 87 (gold leaf), 2021. Photo: John Collie
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In her exhibition 3(.)6 Degrees of Separation, Julia Morison reprises an earlier work, Vademecum (1986), and continues to expand an on-going series, Omnium Gatherum (2015-2021).
In Vademecum, 1986 (Collection Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa), Morison referenced Kabbalistic material traditions to create her own symbolic code from ten logos, which were then combined, repeated and presented within a pyramid-like structure. Through this curious visual language, symbolism and logic were blurred into a strange and beautiful enigma. In its new iteration, Vademecum II continues this wonderful tradition.
Omnium Gatherum, meaning a collection or assortment of things, is another ongoing project featuring paintings that explore visual language through geometric form – which can be surprisingly fluid and often playful. In this sense, the series resembles Vademecum’s merging of logic and mystery through the obvious presence of a system, one that is constantly being teased, stretched and played with by the artist.
Julia Morison is a senior New Zealand artist. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1975 – out of her studio in central Christchurch.
In her exhibition 3(.)6 Degrees of Separation, Julia Morison reprises an earlier work, Vademecum (1986), and continues to expand an on-going series, Omnium Gatherum (2015-2021).
In Vademecum, 1986 (Collection Museum of New Zealand/Te Papa Tongarewa), Morison referenced Kabbalistic material traditions to create her own symbolic code from ten logos, which were then combined, repeated and presented within a pyramid-like structure. Through this curious visual language, symbolism and logic were blurred into a strange and beautiful enigma. In its new iteration, Vademecum II continues this wonderful tradition.
Omnium Gatherum, meaning a collection or assortment of things, is another ongoing project featuring paintings that explore visual language through geometric form – which can be surprisingly fluid and often playful. In this sense, the series resembles Vademecum’s merging of logic and mystery through the obvious presence of a system, one that is constantly being teased, stretched and played with by the artist.
Julia Morison is a senior New Zealand artist. She has been exhibiting nationally and internationally since 1975 – out of her studio in central Christchurch.
