Alex Gene Morrison

(b 1975, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London)

Morrison has a longstanding interest in the archetypal imagery and mythologies thatconnect modern and ancient man. Filtering his various influences through a contemporary lens; Morrison allows layered culturalreferences toseep into his work; including early video game aesthetics; retro-futurism; sub-cultural graphic design;cartoons and comics. He pairs this preoccupation with a stylistic enquiry into Modern abstract painting;employingformalist mores defined by20th century avant-garde movements.Morrison seeks to create a unique visual code in his work by bringingthese ideological and painterly languagesto bear on his expansive index of simulations of his own morphed archetypes.