Dylan Morris, born 1997 in Hong Kong, is a mixed media visual artist now residing and working in East-London, UK. Morris is currently studying a BA in Fine Art at Camberwell College of Arts, although he had been practicing as a self-taught artist since 2019 and has shown in multiple solo and group exhibitions in London.

Born from a need for direction after leaving a Philosophy degree at The University of Edinburgh, his art began simply as a form of therapeutic introspection and an exciting foray into self-expression. A year later, his large-scale expressionist paintings were discovered by The Bermondsey Project Space who would soon go on to host Morris' first show, a solo exhibition of his paintings in the summer of 2020. The gallery would continue to champion Morris, exhibiting his work in two subsequent solo exhibitions.

In 2022, Morris began studying at Camberwell College of Arts and his practice has since expanded in use of medium and has become more considered in its interaction with concepts. Now, working mainly with collage, Morris' work currently seeks to reflect on the overabundance of media, the superficiality of online content and the increasingly pervasive sense of materialism in culture. He seeks to abstract the ubiquitous digital realm of adverts, pop ups, pixels, reels, apps and tabs and then tear away at it or dissect it to find his own sense of catharsis over it. Growing up in an age of increasingly immediate and overwhelming digital culture, Morris finds it therapeutic to take certain elements of this culture and then incorporate them into a gradual, physical and detail intensive practice where he has the power to manipulate and distort them. This allows him to gain a sense of agency over a culture of perpetual, dizzying stimulation and hopes that those who see his work can feel a semblance of this cathartic release.

Taking inspiration from as wide a range of sources as possible, from Baroque paintings to internet culture, Morris uses paper to compile his images that both distort and weave together a broad spectrum of imagery. He finds and drags back to the studio different billboard posters, books and magazines, street ephemera and miscellaneous paper products such as stickers, receipts and raffle tickets. He enjoys the process of scouring the streets, rummaging through piles of unwanted books and through the aisles of discount shops to find all the right elements such as vivid, nuanced colours, absorbing patterns and evocative, engaging images. He takes physical materials that have their own narrative, their own history and meaning and manipulates and rearranges them to communicate something personal. He continually layers and then cuts and peels away at the materials to weave together the different elements involved on the different pieces of paper he finds. The process is almost entirely improvisational, Morris tries to follow his instincts as directly as he can to arrive at something close to the pictures formulating in his head.