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Gabby Morris

Gabby Morris is a visual artist working across sculpture, ceramics, painting and writing.

Her practice explores the relationships between self, material and place: how bodies and landscapes carry experience, how things fragment and reform, and what materials can reveal when they are allowed to resist control.

Her work moves between personal and ecological territories, from grief, memory and the unstable self to soil, rural landscapes, industrial traces and more-than-human lives. Rather than treating these as separate subjects, Morris is interested in the ways they meet through pressure, change, loss, adaptation and making.

A background in product design, geography, futures and place-based research continues to shape how she works. Fieldwork, mapping, observation, collecting and systems thinking sit alongside more instinctive and embodied forms of making.

Her design and consultancy practice operates separately through Feeldwork, while her artistic practice takes some of those ways of looking and allows them to become more personal, material and unresolved.

Abstract sculptures made from broken pottery and ceramic fragments arranged on a flat surface against a white background.

Selected career highlights

  • MA Fine Art, Grays School of Art (August 2026)

  • Historic Environment Scotland Grants Awardee (2025)

  • VACMA Awardee (2025)

  • BDes (Hons) Product Design, Glasgow School of Art (2022)

  • 1851 Exhibition Fellowship Finalist (2024)

  • Grounded Wisdom Kickstarter funded at 677% (2023)

  • Exhibited at London Biennale (2020)

  • Exhibited at Dutch Design Week (2022, 2023, 2024)

  • Exhibited at British Soil Science World Congress (2022)

  • 12 public talks on food systems, futures, and new economies of value (2024)

  • Hosted 8 Dish the Dirt soil experiences in UK & The Netherlands

  • Have run two social enterprises on wellness and urban biodiversity

  • Designer on a Bloomberg City champion team

Person standing on ground covered with small plants, weeds, and soil, wearing black shoes and beige pants, with a tree stump visible in the center of the image. The photo is taken from the person's perspective, looking down at their feet and the surrounding area.