For over twenty years, I have used painting and drawing to engage Western historical painting and contemporary visual culture while examining gender, sexuality, shame, reconciliation, and apocalypse. More recently, I have reconsidered the relationship between artist and sitter through what I call a Relationally Based Studio Practice. The sitter is not simply represented but becomes an active participant whose presence and subjectivity shape the work.

My studio functions as a space for connection and community-building. Each sitting creates a shared duration in which conversation, observation, gesture, and silence enter the work. The ethics of these encounters are as important as the resulting paintings and drawings, which act as traces of exchange and ground an often solitary practice in social connection.

Formally, the works explore representation and the material possibilities of painting and drawing, combining figures, objects, abstract passages, and fragments of personal text. Some are made quickly during sittings; others develop later from the residue of those encounters. Moving between immediacy and reflection keeps the relational process embedded in the work while preserving space for the private activity of the studio.

I transform the gallery into both a site of production, learning, and exhibition. A working area invites the public to participate in sittings while I make drawings, paintings, and photographs. Workshops are held to guide participants through analogous processes of seeing and being seen. New works join existing ones, revealing the practice as an unfolding social process. Through its staff, visitors, architecture, and daily rhythms, the gallery becomes part of the work: a space of gathering and collective attention. My works register not only how a person appears, but what becomes possible when people give one another time. In my practice painting and drawing are not records of a solitary gaze; but social spaces where connection takes material form.


Morrow lives and works in Chelsea, QC, with his wife, youngest son, and their dog, Kaza


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Upcoming:

Solo Exhibition, de Montigny Contemporary, Ottawa, Canada, Winter 2027