Art for Ukraine

‘The work is titled after the track ‘Beauty Jackson’ by Ghostface Killah – it’s one of my favourite songs as I love the sample he used (Maybe by The Three Degrees) and the way he narrates a simple, everyday story.’ – Pearl Morris

Pearl Morris is a young Franco-Jamaican artist based in London, who first came to painting through music. With an extreme passion for jazz, Morris found the two art forms inexorably intertwined and looked towards painting as another channel for expressing her artistic sensibilities. She draws inspiration from Basquiat, for his ability to capture the essence of jazz, translating its sonic experience into a visual one. 

Morris’ practice seeks to subvert the historical underrepresentation of black figures in painting. Placing her figures against flamboyant backdrops, she tells the story of racial struggle and experiences of inequality. Experimenting with various shades of blues and browns, she conveys the complexity of each of her figures’ narratives. 

She takes inspiration from her father, Dennis Morris’s photographs such as Gordon Parks, Malik Sadibe, Seydou Keita and many others. More specifically she is heavily influenced by the 1960s-1970s, falling in love with the music of this time and delving deeper into the design and art that experiments without limits or boundaries.

Pearl Morris is a completely self-taught artist, but, from an early age was exposed to a wide variety of art through her parents who both work in art. Morris’s mother is a Curator and her father a photographer – they introduced her, as she notes, ‘to the endless perspectives and visions of some of the artists that inspire me to explore painting and see the connections between my music and art form.’

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