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Malcolm Morley (born June 7, 1931) is a United
Kingdom|British-born artist now living in the
United States.

Morley was born in north London. He had a troubled
childhood, and did not discover art until serving
a three-year stint in Wormwood Scrubs prison.
After release, he studied art first at the
Camberwell College of Arts|Camberwell School of
Arts and then at the Royal College of Art
(1955-1957), where his fellow students included
Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake and Frank
Auerbach. In 1956, he saw an exhibition of
contemporary American art at the Tate Gallery, and
began to produce paintings in an abstract
expressionist style.

In 1958, a year after leaving the Royal College,
Morley moved to New York City (he has lived there
ever since), met Barnett Newman, and became
influenced by him. He painting|painted a number of
works at this time made up of only horizontal
black and white bands.

He also met Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and,
influenced in part by them, changed to a
photo-realism|photo-realist style (Morley prefers
the phrase super realist). He often used a grid to
transfer photography|photographics images (often
of ships) from a variety of sources (travel
brochures, calendars, old paintings) to canvas as
accurately as possible, and became one of the most
noted photo-realists.

In the 1970s, Morley's work began to be more
expressionism|expressionist, and he began to
incorporate collage into his work. Many of his
paintings from the mid-70s, such as Train Wreck
(1975),  depict "catastrophes". Later in the
decade, he began to use his own earlier drawings
and watercolours as the subject for his paintings.

In the 1990s he returned again to a more precise
photo-realist style, often reproducing images from
model aeroplane kits on large canvases.

In 1984, Morley won the inaugural Turner Prize.

==External links==
*http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/collection/search.asp
?Artist=malcolm+morley&Title=&Date=&Nationality=&S
chool= Works by Malcolm Morley at the Hirshhorn
Museum
*
http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistI
nfo/artist/8029 Exhibitions at Artfacts