Bio

Korynn Morrison (b. 1991) is a contemporary Australian artist based on Dharawal Country (southern Sydney, New South Wales). She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the National Art School (2012) and has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions across Australia. Her recent accolades include finalist selections in the 2025 St Columba’s Art Prize and the prestigious 2025 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award.

Her process-led paintings are a tactile dance of control and surrender—built in layers, sealed in ritual, and excavated with power tools to reveal a history of perfect imperfection. Through this performative act, she negotiates themes of memory, mortality, destruction and rebirth in response to the landscape and natural world around her. Morrison’s work has been collected for private and corporate spaces across Australia and abroad, including major commissions and public-facing placements.

Artist Statement

Nature erodes, sculpting its own masterpieces. It floods to nourish, burns to renew, and exists in a relentless cycle of destruction and rebirth. Morrison’s creative process mirrors these natural rhythms. It is the tension held between such polarities that she seeks to capture in her Excavated Landscapes. Colour, for Morrison, is a language that speaks in many volumes. By constructing her compositions from the bones up through colour blocking and the strategic layering, she has developed a distinct methodology that brings depth and dimensional resonance to each work. Over time, each surface reaches a point of energetic tension before being sealed with a thick final coat—what Morrison refers to as a ritualistic burial. As in nature, destruction becomes a necessary precursor to transformation.

The excavation phase echoes the act of unearthing something long buried. Often unaware of what lies beneath, she re-curates each composition with power tools in hand, carving through layers of pigment to reveal the hidden foundations of the work. This process becomes a considered negotiation between control and surrender, as the history embedded in each surface is gradually uncovered, imperfect, unpredictable, and alive. Each mark, scrape, and fragment becomes an embedded relic of the natural world. These surfaces act as maps of accumulated memory, revealing traces of time, tension, and transformation.

Morrison’s broader creative mission is to offer moments of stillness in a world that moves too fast. To create work that honours curiosity as a process of self discovery. She invites viewers to slow down, to stand still, and to return time and time again for and intimate and gradual unfolding. With each encounter, something new may emerge. Like the landscape itself, these works reward patience, reminding us that to truly see, we must first honour ourselves enough to pause.

Korynn is represented by Curatorial + Co. Sydney.