Christopher Morgan

Chris Morgan is a practicing artist from Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. Chris began experimenting with the analogue photographic process both compositionally and technically as a teenager. He has adapted these skills to processes developed by Photoshop engineers, mainly using the basic operations of burning in, holding back, layering, altering exposure and retouching.
To Chris, single photographic images represent just a sample of something. Initial sampling from one area can be used as the basis for image building. Samples from other areas as a consequence - geographically and shapes and atmospherics from sociological contexts, can be further used as building blocks when constructing the image. Carefully crafted forms from compositional values can happen in two basic ways. Firstly from the images that are appropriated from the field of view, and then from what reveals itself compositionally as images are combined and layered to render the approximation of the environment within which the photographs were taken in the first place. This process opens up possibilities for historical, contemporary and futuristic contemplation.

2009 Recipient of an Australian Post Graduate Award for Post Graduate Study UTAS University of Tasmania.

2012 Master of Fine Arts UTAS University of Tasmania.

2008 Awarded Master of Contemporary Art (Studio Based)

2019 Solo Exhibition "The Pieman Project Gallows
Gallery, Launceston College Launceston Tasmania
2017 Solo Exhibition Sawtooth ARI Gallery Launceston

2016 Solo Exhibition Sawtooth ARI Gallery Launceston

2013 Finalist Sunshine Coast Art Prize Queensland Aus.