Morag Caister

Morag Caister (born 1994) is a British painter currently living between London, UK and Tirana, Albania, after graduating in Painting (BA) from the University of Brighton in 2019. Morag contested as a semi-finalist in the 2020 series of Sky Arts: Portrait Artist of the Year, and has been included in multiple prestigious open calls, most notably The Football Art Prize, The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Award 2021, ING Discerning Eye and Figurative Art Now (Mall Galleries). She has exhibited with Blue Shop Cottage, London Paint Club and Gallery 94 at Glyndebourne. Most recently Morag was announced as a winner of The Curators EROS Project Open Call award, and will have a self portrait hung in the permanent collection of the brand new Soho House Brighton.

Morag is interested in what links us together, maintaining a figurative and portrait based practice focusing on routine and automatic behaviour within relatable, resting imagery that has a sense of more than one day being described at a time. The work seeks to describe our familiarities and authentic nature of ourselves through candid posture, body language and expressions, as a crowd or an individual. Sometimes this is explored by direct representation in the form of a portrait, and...

2019:
- BA, Fine Art: Painting, The University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

2014:
- BTEC, Art & Design Foundation 3/4, Brighton City College, Brighton, UK

2022:
- Portrait Artist of the Year Exhibition curated by Kathleen Soriano, Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park, Warwick UK,
- The Football Art Prize Tour, Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, UK
- The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London, UK
- Morag Caister: Looking For Peace, Solo Show, Gallery 70, Tirana, Albania

2021:
- Fresh Perspectives, LONDON PAINT CLUB, London, UK
- Works on Paper 3, Blue Shop Cottage, London, UK
- The Self-Portrait Prize, The Ruth Borchard Collection, London, UK
- Altered, Brighton Fringe Festival, Brighton, UK
- Forces of Nature, Gallery 94, Glyndebourne, UK
- Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries, London, UK
- EROS, The Curators, New York, USA

2020:
- Fair Ground, Gallery 94, Glyndebourne, UK
- Allie, Joe, Morag, Destil Creative Hub, Tirana, Albania

2019:
- Free Range, Truman Brewery, London, UK
- Degree Show, Grande Parade Gallery, Brighton, UK
- Material Practices, Hove Museum, Hove, UK

2018:
- Conjecture, Grande Parade Gallery, Brighton, UK

2017:
- ...&..., Destil, Tirana