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Heather Peak was born in Desborough, UK in 1973.
Ivan Morison was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1974.
They currently live and work in Brighton and North Wales.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2010
An Unreachable Country. A Long Way to Go, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Frost King, Open Satellite, Seattle, USA
Mr. Clevver, ongoing project commissioned by Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania, Queenstown, Tasmania, AU
2009
Falling Into Place, published by Bookworks, London and Situations, University of West of England, Bristol
The Black Line, Void, Derry, Northern Ireland
The Shape of Things to Come, Situations, University of West of England, Bristol
I hate her. I hate her., VOLTA NY with Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, New York
Black Dog Times, produced in collaboration with Full Beam Visual Theatre, Bristol
2008
How to Survive (The Bad Years), Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto
The Opposite of all those Things, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
2007
And so it goes, Representing Wales at the 52nd Venice Biennale 2007, with Merlin James and Richard Deacon,
touring to Oriel Davies, Newtown and Chapter, Cardiff*
The Land of Cockaigne, Bloomberg Space, London
2006
Earthwalker, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London
I lost her near Fantasy Island. Life has not been the same. Commissioned by Situations, Bristol
Camden Arts Centre tree tour, Camden Arts Centre, London
2005
Starmaker, Charles H Scott Gallery, Vancouver
South London Gallery Dendrology Field Trip and Tree Tour, South London Gallery
Chinese Arboretum, Q Arts, Derby
2004
Heather & Ivan Morison do not understand it, IPS, Birmingham*
Heather & Ivan Morison are spellbound, Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery*
Chinese Arboretum / I put you on a mile long string but still you broke away, S1 Artspace, Sheffield*
Heather & Ivan Morison hired an aeroplane, New Art Gallery Walsall*
Heather & Ivan Morison are confused, Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London*
Still Life, Resonance 104.4fm, London (weekly programme)
Birmingham International Film Club, Springhill Institute, Birmingham
2003
Global Survey commissioned by Vivid, Birmingham. Partners included Ikon Gallery Birmingham, Metapod Birmingham, IPS Birmingham, Harris Museum Preston, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, IBID Projects Vilnius Lithuania, A2 Radio Stotis Vilnius Lithuania, Helsinki City Art Gallery Finland, DEPO Novosibirsk Russia,
Red Gate Gallery Beijing China, Art Gallery of Western Australia Perth Australia, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston USA and New Museum New York USA
Mr & Mrs Morison would like to inform you that..., LED installation, commissioned by Nigel Prince at IPS, Birmingham
Mr & Mrs Morison would like to inform you that..., LED installation, commissioned by Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
2002
Shrewsbury International Tree Tour, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Flower Stall, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Colours and Sounds..., Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
The Crystal Palace (Destroyed), Works|Projects, Bristol
The woods that see and hear, dertien hectare, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Volta 6, Basel, Switzerland
We have the mirrors, we have the plans, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
On the edge of the world, British Council, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
Oasis, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk
2009
Let’s Pretend we’re from the Future, Whitechapel Gallery, London (part of the Peer Critique Programme)
Heather and Ivan Morison, The Fields Sculpture Park at ART/OMI, New York State
Dark Star, Pavilion Projects, Montreal
Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, London
Radical Nature, Barbican, London
Utopia and Monument, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
Trying to Cope with Things that aren’t Human, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco and Air Gallery, Stoke, UK
Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods, Or Gallery, Vancouver
Flower Power, Villa Giulia, Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale, Turin
Modern Nature, K3 Project Space, Zurich
Abstract Cabinet, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Altered Sequence, E:vent Gallery, London
The Boundary Layer, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Canada
Contemporary Art Norwich09, Norwich
Heather and Ivan Morison, The Fields Sculpture Park at ART/OMI, New York State
Dark Star, Pavilion Projects, Montreal
2008
Fantasy Island, Eastside, Birmingham
Journée des barricades, One Day Sculpture, Wellington, New Zealand
Aqua Art Miami 08, USA
Zoo Art Fair, London
Dragged Down into Lower Case, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
The True Artist, Triangle France, Marseille, France
This Is The Gallery and The Gallery Is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Give Me Shelter, Attingham Park, Shrewsbury
Let’s pretend we’re from the future, Margate Rocks, Margate
Artfutures, Bloomberg Space, London
Force and Beauty, Galerie Yukiko Kawase, Paris
Tales in Space and Time, Folkestone Sculpture Triennale
I am so sorry. Goodbye, Tatton Park Biennale, Tatton Park, Manchester
Paraisos Indomitos / Untamed Paradises, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
York Art Gallery, York
2007
Golden Fluffer, Transition Gallery, London
Aqua Art Miami 07, USA
Salon 2007, Portobello Road, London
Artfutures, Bloomberg Space, London
Zoorama Piccadilly Line, Platform for Art, London
Wallpaper, Manchester Art Gallery
Venice, Castell Bodelwyddan, Wales
Dock Art Fair, Lyon, France
Decadence, Decay and the Demimode, Home House, London
Year 07, County Hall, London
Wildwood, Project Space Leeds
2006
Passionate Collectors, New Art Gallery, Walsall
British Art Show 6, Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol*
Supernova, Reims, Pommery, France*
Everything Must Go, VTO Gallery, London
Crystal Worlds, New Generation Arts, Birmingham
The Starry Messenger, Compton Verney, Warwickshire*
Archipeinture, Camden Arts Centre, London
When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang, Bodgers' and Kludgers' Co-operative Art Parlour, Vancouver
2005
British Art Show 6, Baltic Gateshead*
Human Nature, Pump House, Battersea, London*
Gathering Moss, Q Arts, Derby
Spectator T: Art Sheffield 05, Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum
ARTfutures Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space, London
Public structures, Guanzhou Triennial, China
Art of the Garden, Ulster Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester City Art Gallery
Forest, Nottingham Castle Gallery, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales and York Art Gallery
The Real Ideal, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
Launch Programme, Vivid, Birmingham
2004
Everything's Gone Green: Photography and the Garden, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford
Pistols and Petals, Fundació Espais d'Art Contemporani of Girona, Spain*
The Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London*
Tempered Ground, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art London / Museum of Garden History, London*
Pleasure Garden, Nottingham Castle Gallery, Nottingham
Forest, Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery, Wolverhampton*
Clash, Fused magazine, Birmingham*
2003
Going a Journey, Charles H Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada*
Exhumed, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art / Museum of Garden History, London*
Fly, Kirov House of Culture, Novosibirsk, Russia
Innocence, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shrewsbury
2002
Colours in Ivan Morison’s..., Museum of Garden History, London
Slim Volume, Vilma Gold Gallery, London
Deliberate Regression, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London*
Platforms 1, commissioned by Jubilee Arts, West Bromwich
Outwardbound, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich
2001
Bring and Buy, Transit Space, London
Record Collection, VTO, London, touring to International 3 Gallery, Manchester and Forde Gallery, Geneva
AWARDS
2005
Grants to Artists Scheme, British Council
Grants for Artists, Arts Council England
2004
National Touring Programme, Arts Council England
2003
Grants to Artists Scheme, British Council
European Regional Development Fund
2002
Hothaus Bursary, Vivid, Birmingham
Go See Award, West Midlands Arts, Birmingham
RESIDENCIES
2010
Open Satellite, Seattle, USA
2007
Arts and Ecology residence commissioned by Situations, Bristol as part of the RSA and Gulbenkian Foundation Arts and
Ecology Program.
2006
Drowned Worlds, Camden Arts Centre, London
2004
New Art Gallery Walsall
2003
Vivid, Birmingham
IBID Projects, Vilnius, Lithuania
DEPO, Novosibirsk, Russia
Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
*denotes publication
