Christopher Colm Morrin

Biography

Christopher Colm Morrin (b. 1980, Dublin, Ireland)

Christopher Colm Morrin makes enigmatic and philosophical pieces of art across various media, including painting, drawing, poetry, and music composition. His work embraces the often hidden, underlying patterns of life and shifting nature of reality; states like mutability, impermanence and ambiguity. Initially trained in psychology, philosophy, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, his work has been driven by a deep, serious, and irreverent questioning of reality in an attempt to get to grips with what is going on at any time.

Abstract and small in scale, the paintings often use elemental shapes and raw saturated colours. His work has been praised for its careful and sensitive understanding of composition and the ways in which forms and colours relate to one another in different arrangements and styles. All his work is united by an open, loose and untethered exploration of what painting is and what it can do. Morrin is motivated by painting’s rich expanse rather than its categories. (extract from text by Wells Fray-Smith)

Christopher Colm Morrin studied Psychology, Philosophy and Psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Solo exhibitions include notes, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp (2024); Witnessing Change, Galerie Mutter Fourage, Berlin (2023); Unknown Landscapes, Köthener Str. 28, Berlin (2022). Select group exhibitions include Unfathomable, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, Holland (2023); Real Life, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium (2023); Uferhallen, Berlin Art Week, Berlin (2022); Different Shades of Abstraction, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam (2022); Selected Works, Wilson Stephens & Jones Gallery, London (2021); Days of Heartbreak, Pony Royal, Berlin (2021); Lusus Naturae, BcmA Gallery, Berlin (2021); Rare, Anomalie Art Club, Berlin (2019); Craw, Kultstätte Keller, Berlin (2018); Riso, Urban Spree, Berlin (2017).

Christopher Colm Morrin is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde

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Christopher Colm Morrin (b. 1980, Dublin, Ireland)

Christopher Colm Morrin makes enigmatic and philosophical pieces of art across various media, including painting, drawing, poetry, and music composition. His work embraces the often hidden, underlying patterns of life and shifting nature of reality; states like mutability, impermanence and ambiguity. Initially trained in psychology, philosophy, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, his work has been driven by a deep, serious, and irreverent questioning of reality in an attempt to get to grips with what is going on at any time.

Abstract and small in scale, the paintings often use elemental shapes and raw saturated colours. His work has been praised for its careful and sensitive understanding of composition and the ways in which forms and colours relate to one another in different arrangements and styles. All his work is united by an open, loose and untethered exploration of what painting is and what it can do. Morrin is motivated by painting’s rich expanse rather than its categories. (extract from text by Wells Fray-Smith)

Christopher Colm Morrin studied Psychology, Philosophy and Psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Solo exhibitions include notes, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp (2024); Witnessing Change, Galerie Mutter Fourage, Berlin (2023); Unknown Landscapes, Köthener Str. 28, Berlin (2022). Select group exhibitions include Unfathomable, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, Holland (2023); Real Life, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium (2023); Uferhallen, Berlin Art Week, Berlin (2022); Different Shades of Abstraction, Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam (2022); Selected Works, Wilson Stephens & Jones Gallery, London (2021); Days of Heartbreak, Pony Royal, Berlin (2021); Lusus Naturae, BcmA Gallery, Berlin (2021); Rare, Anomalie Art Club, Berlin (2019); Craw, Kultstätte Keller, Berlin (2018); Riso, Urban Spree, Berlin (2017).

Christopher Colm Morrin is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde

morrinartist.com

Latest selected exhibitions

2024

'notes', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE

2023

'Unfathomable,' Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, NL
'Real Life', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE

2022

'Uferhallen', Berlin Art Week, Berlin, DE
'Sonyaschnik Auction', Berlin, DE
'Unknown Landscapes' (solo exhibition), Köthener Str. 28, 10963, Berlin, DE

2021

'Different Shades Of Abstraction', BÜRO KIF, Amsterdam, NL
'Selected Works', Wilson Stephens & Jones Gallery, London, UK
'Days of Heartbreak', Pony Royal, Berlin, DE
'Lusus Naturae', Bcma Gallery, Berlin, DE

2019

'Rare', Anomalie Art Club, Berlin, DE

2018

Craw', Kultstätte Keller, Berlin, DE

2017

'Riso', Urban Spree, Berlin, DE

Artworks

Christopher Colm Morrin
Untitled, 2023
Oil on jute
30 x 35 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Untitled, 2023
Oil on jute
18 x 35 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Hang On, 2023
Oil on linen
20 x 35 cm

Blindspot, 2023
Oil on jute
73 x 60 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Untitled, 2023
Oil on jute
35 x 30 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Untitled, 2022
Oil on jute
73 x 60 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Morning Veil, 2021
Oil on canvas
30 x 50 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Miracle, 2021
Oil on canvas
22 x 30 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Out Into This World, 2022
Oil on jute
60 x 70 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Upward, 2022
Oil on jute
73 x 60 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Untitled, 2022
Oil on canvas
15 x 20 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Let Go Of It All, 2021
Oil on jute
24 x 31 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Untitled, 2022
Oil on jute
35 x 30 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Faith, 2021
Oil and gesso on jute
30 x 34 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Play, 2022
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 cm

Christopher Colm Morrin
Still, 2022
Oil on canvas
22 x 34 cm