TRISH MORRISSEY: A Certain Slant of Light
TRISH MORRISSEY: A Certain Slant of Light First edition published by Hestercombe & ICVL Studio Design by Alejandro Acín Edited by Kate Best Text by David Chandler & Trish Morrissey Prepress by Artur Tixiliski Printed by PurePrint Edition of 500 copies © Hestercombe & ICVL Studio for this edition 2017… Read more
PYLOT Magazine, Issue 7, 2017
PYLOT Magazine, Issue 7, 2017 View PDF Read more
Source Magazine 2016
Source Magazine 2016 View PDF Read more
Review of ‘New Works’ at Impressions Gallery, The Independent 2004
Review of ‘New Works’ at Impressions Gallery, The Independent ‘The information’ 17-23 July 2004, by Peter Chapman. For the past three years, the Impressions Gallery in York has been supporting the development of the photographer Trish Morrissey. The worthwhile nature of their investment is apparent from a new body of… Read more
Family Traits, The Big Issue reviews New Works at Pumphouse Gallery, Battersea Park, London, July 2004
Family Traits, The Big Issue reviews New Works at Pumphouse Gallery, Battersea Park, London, July 2004 I enter the show to the strains of Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Serenade, which is accompanied by a film, showing a backyard with an older woman wearing a wedding dress standing at a clothesline, whilst… Read more
Family Remade, review in Source Magazine, issue 40 by Edward Welch
Family Remade, review in Source Magazine, issue 40 by Edward Welch In her new show, Trish Morrissey embarks on an exploration of every day life, and the small-scale drams and tensions which constitute it. Three separate pieces of work investigate the nature of family life, and the workings of the… Read more
Review of the exhibition New Works at Gallery of Photography, Dublin, by Aidan Dunne, ‘Visual Arts’ Irish Times Magazine, 2005
Review of the exhibition New Works at Gallery of Photography, Dublin, by Aidan Dunne, ‘Visual Arts’ Irish Times Magazine, March 23, 2005, p12. Trish Morrissey’s Seven Years at the Gallery of Photography, is a fantastic exhibition. It is a complex project that must have involved a huge amount of meticulous… Read more
Show World in ‘The Village Voice’, By Vince Aletti. Review of Seven Years at Yossi Milo Gallery, 25th January, 2005
Show World in ‘The Village Voice’, By Vince Aletti. Review of Seven Years at Yossi Milo Gallery, 25th January, 2005 Dublin-born, London-based Trish Morrissey, 37 is a plain-looking teenager inan unflattering pixie haircut, a rather pretty girl in a baby doll dress and bare feet, a cocky young man in… Read more
Review: ‘Trish Morrissey, Photographs and Video at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Fitzroy, Melbourne. Dr Marcus Bunyan in ArtBlart
Dr Marcus Bunyan in ArtBlart (www.artblart.wordpress.com) Review: ‘Trish Morrissey, Photographs and Video at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Fitzroy, Melbourne Exhibition dates: 22nd January – 14th March, 2010 This is an extract from the online review that first appeared on March 2nd 2010 (Extract) The most outstanding body of… Read more
Review of exhibition at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne by Dan Rule, ‘Around the Galleries’, The Age, February 13th 2010
Review of exhibition at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne by Dan Rule, ‘Around the Galleries’, The Age, February 13th 2010, p20 There’s nothing passive about UK-Based artist Trish Morrissey’s performative, humourous and ultimately affecting works. Featuring two videos and two series of photographs, this concise though expounding survey adopts a… Read more
Source Magazine 2012
The Failed Realist Source Magazine, Siún Hanrahan 2012 The nexus explored through Morrissey’s work combines the conventions of portraiture, revealing that which is normally hidden, and ‘everyday anxieties’. In the 1990s, Morrissey’s Women with Moustaches series (Source 22) explored the anxieties surrounding facial hair, and the challenges they pose… Read more
Portfolio, Issue No.49, 2010
Trish Morrissey – Camilla Brown, Portfolio, Issue No.49, 2010 Morrissey’s style could be described as narrative documentary as it uses the conventions of portraiture and snap-shot photography whilst collapsing the distinction between fact and fiction. The artist always appears in her work, although at times she is hard to recognize,… Read more
Seven Years EAST International 2004
Trish Morrissey, Seven Years EAST International 2004, Catalogue Essay, Camilla Brown On a grey and overcast summers day an amateur photographer takes a picture of a young girl in her swimming costume on a pebbled beach. Clumsily the hand of the photographer partly obscures the lens and the central… Read more
Vitamin Ph 2006
Alison Green, Vitamin Ph , Survey of International Contemporary Photography, Phaidon Press, 2006 For several years Trish Morrissey used her parents’ house in Dublin as the location for her photographs. At first, she investigated the house itself. Her mother and father were in some pictures, but they might have… Read more