Cal­lum Morton

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Recep­tion, 2016
    instal­la­tion: mixed media, ani­ma­tron­ic mod­el, cloth­ing, leather boots
    344 x 657 x 512 cm
    instal­la­tion view: Anna Schwartz Gallery

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Val­hal­la, 2007
    steel, poly­styrene, epoxy resin, sil­i­con, mar­ble, glass, wood, acrylic paint, lights, sound, motor
    465 x 1475 x 850cm
    instal­la­tion view, 2007 Venice Biennale

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Val­hal­la, 2007
    steel, poly­styrene, epoxy resin, sil­i­con, mar­ble, glass, wood, acrylic paint, lights, sound, motor
    465 x 1475 x 850 cm
    instal­la­tion view, 2007 Venice Biennale

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Val­hal­la, 2007
    steel, poly­styrene, epoxy resin, sil­i­con, mar­ble, glass, wood, acrylic paint, lights, sound, motor
    465 x 1475 x 850 cm
    instal­la­tion view, 2007 Venice Biennale

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Ghost Train, Bulleen, 2011
    dig­i­tal print on archival paper, unframed
    94.5 x 132.5 cm

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Baby­lo­nia, 2005
    wood, poly­styrene, epoxy resin, acrylic paint, light, car­pet, mir­ror, sound
    320 x 1300 x 750 cm
    instal­la­tion view, Aus­tralian Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Art (ACCA)

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Baby­lo­nia, 2005
    wood, poly­styrene, epoxy resin, acrylic paint, light, car­pet, mir­ror, sound
    320 x 1300 x 750 cm
    instal­la­tion view, Aus­tralian Cen­tre for Con­tem­po­rary Art (ACCA)

  • Cal­lum Morton

    One to One, 2011
    poly­styrene, epoxy resin, steel, sand, wood, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint, light, CD, audio unit
    256 x 335 x 132 cm

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    Mon­u­ment #28, Vortex, 2011
    poly­styrene, epoxy resin, sand, wood, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint, glass
    330 x 380 x 540 cm

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Oth­er Desert Cities, 2013
    set design for Mel­bourne The­atre Company
    tim­ber, steel, glass, light
    Pho­to: John Gollings

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Oth­er Desert Cities, 2013
    set design for Mel­bourne The­atre Company
    tim­ber, steel, glass, light
    Pho­to: John Gollings

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Grot­to, 2009
    steel, polyurethane, con­crete, plas­ter, fibre­glass, glass, vinyl, wood, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint, light and sound
    Com­mis­sioned by Fun­da­ment Foun­da­tion, Tilburg, The Netherlands

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Grot­to, 2009
    steel, polyurethane, con­crete, plas­ter, fibre­glass, glass, vinyl, wood, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint, light and sound
    Com­mis­sioned by Fun­da­ment Foun­da­tion, Tilburg, The Netherlands

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Cov­er Up #6, 2012
    wood, polyurethane, resin, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
    218 x 96 x 6.5 cm

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Cov­er Up #14 (CC), 2014
    polyurethane, resin, water­borne enam­el, var­nish, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint, wood
    sculp­ture: 58 x 23 x 23 cm, plinth: 132.5 x 63.5 x 60.5 cm

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Screen #23 Cov­er Up, 2010
    wood, resin, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
    94 x 110.5 x 45.5 cm

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Mon­u­ment #1 — Screen, 2006
    wood and acrylic paint
    93 x 110 x 45.3 cm

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Sil­ver­screen, 2010
    The Marc and Eva Besen Commission
    Monash Uni­ver­si­ty Muse­um of Art
    Monash Uni­ver­si­ty Collection
    Pho­to: Greg Ford

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Unti­tled (bill­board), 2007
    Den Haag Sculp­tu­ure, the Hague

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Gas and Fuel, 2002
    wood, acrylic paint, alu­mini­um, per­spex, paper, sound
    220 cm x 91 cm x 600 cm cm
    instal­la­tion view, Anna Schwartz Gallery

  • Cal­lum Morton

    Hotel, 2008
    con­crete, steel, glass, solar pow­ered lightboxes
    2000 x 1200 x 500 cm
    EastLink

  • Cal­lum Morton

    In the Pines, 2008
    steel, Per­spex, flu­o­res­cent lights
    301 x 242 x 34.5 cm

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Biography

Born Mon­tréal, Cana­da 1965
Lives and works in Melbourne

Cal­lum Morton’s instal­la­tion and sculp­tur­al prac­tice is inspired by archi­tec­ture and the built envi­ron­ment. His work has con­sis­tent­ly addressed the ​‘archi­tec­ture of expe­ri­ence’ – the moment of encounter between view­er and object, or view­er and built envi­ron­ment. Often, his works explore human inter­ac­tion with archi­tec­tur­al space through scale mod­els and facades of well-known build­ings. For exam­ple, Mor­ton rep­re­sent­ed Aus­tralia at the 2007 Venice Bien­nale with a scale mod­el of his child­hood home, designed and built in the 1970s in a mod­ernist style by his archi­tect father.

Morton’s work is held in impor­tant Aus­tralian and inter­na­tion­al pub­lic col­lec­tions includ­ing, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syd­ney; Nation­al Gallery of Vic­to­ria, Mel­bourne; Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art Aus­tralia, Syd­ney; Muse­um of Old and New, Hobart; Nation­al Gallery of Aus­tralia, Can­ber­ra; Queens­land Art Gallery/​Gallery of Mod­ern Art, Bris­bane; Gov­ett-Brew­ster Art Gallery, New Ply­mouth, New Zealand; and Fon­dazione Mor­ra Gre­co, Naples, among others.


CV

Bib­li­og­ra­phy

Exhibitions

Cal­lum Morton

Inside Out

11th February – 15th April 2023
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Cal­lum Morton

Sisy­phus

1st July 2017 – 16th September 2018
Art Centre Silkeborg Bad

Cal­lum Morton

Recep­tion

3rd March – 23rd April 2016
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Cal­lum Morton

Neigh­bour­hood Watch

1st May – 28th June 2014
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Cal­lum Morton

Oth­er Desert Cities

2nd March – 17th April 2013
Melbourne Theatre Company

Cal­lum Morton

Evac­u­a­tions

30th August – 20th October 2012
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Cal­lum Morton

In Memo­ri­am

16th July – 16th October 2011
Heide Museum of Modern Art

Cal­lum Morton

Smoke­screen

8th October – 7th November 2009
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Cal­lum Morton

Grot­to

30th June – 30th July 2009
Fundament Foundation, Tilburg

Cal­lum Morton

Through This & That

30th July – 3rd August 2008
Melbourne Art Fair

Cal­lum Morton

Val­hal­la

10th June – 21st July 2007
52nd International Art Exhibition - Biennale di Venezia

Cal­lum Morton

Mini Mon­u­ments

15th February – 18th March 2006
Anna Schwartz Gallery

Cal­lum Morton

Baby­lo­nia

8th October – 4th December 2005
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

Cal­lum Morton

Gas and Fuel

27th September – 19th October 2002
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Available Works

Cal­lum Morton

Win­dow 1, 2022 – 23
syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint on canvas
360 x 240 cm

Cal­lum Morton

Blind 1, 2022 – 23
syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint on canvas
360 x 240 cm

Cal­lum Morton

Win­dow 6, 2022
Pen­cil on paper sheet
40.5 x 28.5 cm
frame size 55.1 x 45.2 cm

Cal­lum Morton

Util­i­ty no. 1, 2022
Pen­cil on paper sheet
40.5 x 28.5 cm
frame size 55.1 x 45.2 cm

Cal­lum Morton

The Hole Sto­ry 2, 2022
Pen­cil on paper sheet
40.5 x 28.5 cm
frame size 55.1 x 45.2 cm

Cal­lum Morton

The Hole Sto­ry 4, 2022
Pen­cil on paper sheet
40.5 x 28.5 cm
frame size 55.1 x 45.2 cm

Cal­lum Morton

Screen Shot #37, 2018
wood and syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
93 x 46 x 110 cm

Cal­lum Morton

Cov­er Up #25, 2015
wood, polyurethane, resin, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint
84 x 98 cm

Cal­lum Morton

Screen Shot #2, 2009
wood, syn­thet­ic poly­mer paint and paper
93 x 46 x 110 cm

Cal­lum Morton

Mon­u­ment #7 — Crate, 2006
wool and enam­el paint
15 x 33.5 x 19.5 cm

Cal­lum Morton

Mac Attack, Wahroon­ga, NSW, 2001 from the series Local +/​or General, 2001
dig­i­tal print on paper
115.2 x 153.25 cm
Edi­tion of 5

Cal­lum Morton

Unti­tled, 1992
pen­cil and fibre-tipped pen on paper
65 x 73 cm

Cal­lum Morton

Unti­tled, 1992
coloured pen­cil on print­ed paper (framed)
41.5 x 60.2cm

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