:Heather and Ivan Morison

{{Short description|Welsh artist duo known for their conceptual and performative public artworks}}

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Heather and Ivan Morison are a Welsh artist duo known for their conceptual and performative public artworks.{{cite web |title=Heather and Ivan Morison's public art |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/8860189/Heather-and-Ivan-Morisons-public-art.html |website=The Telegraph}}

The duo, Heather Peak (born 1973) and Ivan Morison (born 1974), are based in North Wales.{{cite web |title=BIO |url=https://www.morison.info/bibliography |website=STUDIO MORISON}}{{cite web |title=Artists Heather and Ivan Morison |url=https://hepworthwakefield.org/artist/heather-and-ivan-morison/ |website=The Hepworth Wakefield}}

Work

In 2007 they grew and then distributed 10,000 flowers in Bloomberg's headquarters in London's financial district, as an expression of love incongruous with the cut-throat world of economic enterprise.{{cite web |title=Artists of the week 16: Heather and Ivan Morison |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/nov/19/heather-ivan-morison-art |website=the Guardian |language=en |date=19 November 2008}} Sleepers Awake, a work from 2011, was an attempt to reverse the order of nature by raising a second sun at night over the north Kent badlands.{{cite web |title=Heather and Ivan Morison: Sleepers Awake, Milton Creek Country Park, Sittingbourne, Kent: review |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8861831/Heather-and-Ivan-Morison-Sleepers-Awake-Milton-Creek-Country-Park-Sittingbourne-Kent-review.html |website=The Telegraph}}

Exhibitions

Exhibitions include the 2016's Royal Academy Summer Show,{{cite web |title=Summer Exhibition 2016 {{!}} Exhibition {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2016 |website=www.royalacademy.org.uk}} the Tate Britain,{{cite journal |title=Art of the Garden {{!}} Frieze |url=https://frieze.com/article/art-garden |journal=Frieze |date=10 October 2004 |issue=86 |language=en |last1=Starling |first1=Anna }} the Tate Modern,{{cite web |title=Tate Modern project: Community project: Skirt of the Black Mouth |url=http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/tate-modern-project/community/tate-modern-project-community-project-skirt-black-mouth |website=tate.org.uk}} South London Gallery{{cite web |title=Heather & Ivan Morison |url=http://southlondongallery.org/page/heather-ivan-morison |website=South London Gallery}} and the Vancouver Art Gallery.{{cite web |title=Heather and Ivan Morison: Blueprint for Happy Endings – Canadian Art |url=https://canadianart.ca/reviews/heather_ivan/ |website=canadianart.ca}}

They represented Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennial.{{cite web |title=Welsh artists at Venice Biennale |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6735141.stm |website=bbc.co.uk |date=10 June 2007}}

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Category:British artist groups and collectives