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Victoria Morton (born in 1971) is a talented Scottish artist. She creates amazing visual art using paint, sculpture, and large art pieces called installations. Her work often explores how colors make us remember things.

Victoria Morton's Life and Art Journey

The Glasgow School of Art, where Victoria Morton studied.

Victoria Morton was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She loved art from a young age and decided to study it seriously. She went to the famous Glasgow School of Art from 1989 to 1993. After that, she continued her studies and earned her master's degree there in 1995.

Early Exhibitions and Recognition

Right after her studies, Victoria's art quickly gained attention. She was chosen for an important show called New Art in Scotland. This exhibition was held at the Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts in 1994 and later at the Aberdeen Art Gallery in 1995.

Her work was also featured in another big show, Loaded: A Contemporary View of British Painting. This exhibition took place at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham in 1996. These early shows helped her become known in the art world.

Recent Art Shows and Projects

Victoria Morton continues to show her art in many places around the world. In 2014, she had exhibitions at The Modern Institute in Glasgow and a show called Mouth Wave at the Rat Hole Gallery in Tokyo, Japan.

In 2016, her art was part of Devils in the Making at the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art. This exhibition celebrated how much the Glasgow School of Art has helped the city's art scene. Also in 2016, she showed her work in London at Sadie Coles HQ in an exhibition called Spoken Yeahs from a Distance.

Victoria has also shown her art at other well-known places, including:

• Fruitmarket Gallery
• Inverleith House
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

She was also part of an art group in Glasgow called Elizabeth Go. This group created interesting performance art together. In 2016, the McManus Galleries in Dundee bought three of her abstract paintings for their collection.

How Victoria Morton Creates Art

Victoria Morton mostly works with paint. She is very interested in how colors interact and how they can bring back memories. Her art often looks like it's somewhere between a real picture and an abstract design.

Exploring Paint and Style

In her earlier works, Victoria experimented a lot with how she put paint on the canvas. She would spray paint or use different objects to apply it. Her first paintings often showed shapes that looked like they came from nature.

Later, her paintings started to feature more geometric shapes, like squares and triangles. Even with these changes, her art still seems to float between being a clear picture and a more abstract idea.

What Inspires Her Art

Victoria Morton gets ideas from many different places. She has said that she is inspired by things like fashion design and other fine art. This wide range of interests helps her create unique and thought-provoking pieces.

Where Victoria Morton's Art Has Been Shown

Here are some of the places where Victoria Morton has had her own solo art shows:

• 2002: Night Geometry, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
• 2002: Pleasure and Practice, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
• 2001: Sadie Coles HQ, London and Galerie Enja Wonneberger, Kiel
• 1999: The Modern Institute, Glasgow
• 1999: Decapoca, The Changing Room, Stirling
• 1997: Dirty Burning, 33 Great Sutton St., London and Gallery Tre, Stockholm
• 1996: Out of the Web, Fringe Gallery, Castlemilk, Glasgow, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow and Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
• 1995: Wilkes Dalriada, Glasgow