Where to start with Lynda Morris, the artists' curator who, for the past 45 years, has worked tirelessly at the coalface of contemporary art?
Where to start with Lynda Morris, the artists' curator who, for the past 45 years, has worked tirelessly at the coalface of contemporary art?
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The past 40 years of international art and the long career of curator Lynda Morris are deeply entwined. By Jan Patience
This new exhibition at Dundee's Cooper Gallery is drawn from her vast personal archive and features artworks, artefacts, catalogues, posters, correspondence and ephemera that relate to key stages of her career.
The black and white preview card I received shows an impossibly cool-looking young woman in Biba mini-dress and black boots sporting a Mia Farrow-style crop. This is Morris in 1967 in one of the studios at Canterbury College of Art where the students' life model was Robert Wyatt and fellow students included Ian Dury. She was taught by Terry Atkinson, a key player in one of the most influential conceptual art movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Art & Language, while other tutors included figurative painter Stephen McKenna (also her boyfriend at the time) and Michael Craig-Martin, now credited with fostering the careers of the Young British Artists.
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