Stacey Morrison

Stacey Morrison is a Brisbane-based ceramic artist whose sculptural practice explores balance, perception, and the quiet tension between natural and constructed forms. Working from her Annerley studio under Morrison Studio’s, she creates contemplative ceramic works that investigate rhythm, structure, and our relationship to landscape.

In Wave, Morrison presents a compelling deconstruction of the ocean’s force. Rather than simply depicting a breaking wave, she dissects its anatomy — exposing the interplay between deep blue mass and fractured white crest. The work captures both momentum and suspension, revealing the hidden mechanics of surge and collapse. It is a study in contrast: calm and chaos, solidity and fragility, movement and pause.

Her Landscape Series continues this dialogue through textured ceramic forms that stand in quiet conversation. Suburbia’s grid-like logic meets the organic undulation of farmland; layered surfaces evoke haystack warmth and forest depth. These works bridge the divide between built and natural environments, encouraging reflection on identity, belonging, and the narratives embedded within place.

Her sculptural work A Perception of Zen: Form and Balance, now sold to a private collector, embodies a more inward meditation. Drawing on Zen philosophy and the Nageire style of Ikebana, the composition explores harmony through a triadic relationship of bowl, stone, and branch — three points creating immediate oneness within space.

Morrison’s work is both structural and spiritual — grounded in material understanding yet reaching toward philosophical enquiry. Through balance, deconstruction, and spatial dialogue, she invites viewers to pause and consider the invisible forces that shape both landscape and self.

All works remain on display at The Brisbane Gallery as part of ESCAPE until 14 March, with Wave and works from the Landscape Series currently available.