The Vatican, 2006, oil on canvas, 240 x 300mm
The Station, 2006, oil on canvas, 240 x 300mm
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Michael Morley b.1963 New Zealand
lives in New Zealand
BA University of Otago
MFA University of Canterbury
Individual Exhibitions
2011
Powderfinger, Rice and Beans
Gallery, Dunedin
l'endroit des routes mortes, Audio
Foundation, Auckland
2009
Silence, De Player, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands
You Say You Don't Love Me, Dunedin
Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
There Is A Party In Here,
Christchurch City Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
The Black Album, Musee des Beaux
Arts, Brussels, Belgium
The Black Album, Teaching Gallery,
Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, USA.
2008
Hopeless, Gallery 64zero3,
Christchurch, New Zealand
2007
The Black Album, Christchurch City
Art Gallery, New Zealand
Inconsolable, Brett McDowell
Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2006
High Anxiety, Loose Gallery, Sydney,
Australia
Kill Your Idols, City Gallery
Wellington, New Zealand
2005
There Is No-One What Will Take Care
Of You?, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2004
Kill your Idols, Room 401, Auckland,
New Zealand
Humiliation I.Q., The Physics Room,
Christchurch, New Zealand
The Fuck Chairs: LSD-25, Artspace,
Auckland, New Zealand
The Fuck Chairs: Idleness and Youth,
Galeria Casa Precarios, London, England
2003
Humiliation I.Q., Blue Oyster
Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Untitled #2, Dunedin Public Art
Gallery, New Zealand
2001
Deep Field, Penthouse and Pavement,
Melbourne, Australia
2000
Spazz Heaven, Galerie Dessford
Vogel, Dunedin, New Zealand
The Idiot Who Lost The World, Blue
Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
1999
Revlon-G., The Physics Room,
Christchurch, New Zealand
Tell me something that I do not
know, The Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Disco Hell, Room 3, Auckland, New
Zealand
1998
My Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart,
Kunst in der stadt II, Bergenz, Austria
The Reverse Parkinson and Banks,
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
The Ratcatcher Diary, The Honeymoon
Suite, Dunedin, New Zealand
The City in the Sky, Port Chalmers
Marine Lodge, Port Chalmers, New Zealand
1997
Wipeout.1997, The Honeymoon Suite,
Dunedin, New Zealand
1996
Paintings, Judith Anderson Gallery,
Auckland, New Zealand
The Vampires and the Soap-man, The
Butcher Gallery, Port Chalmers, New Zealand
My Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart,
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
1995
Six Paintings, Judith Anderson
Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
I am a T.V. Station, Galerie
Dessford Vogel, Dunedin, New Zealand
The Botanicals, Forced Exposure,
Boston, USA
1994
His Name is Car-Body, Teststrip ,
Auckland, New Zealand
Slackers and Wreckers, Thread Waxing
Space, New York, USA
1993
Still-Life and Drawing, Aero Club
Gallery, Port Chalmers, New Zealand
Paintings 1991-1993, No.5 Gallery,
Dunedin, New Zealand
Pro Bono, Teststrip, Auckland, New
Zealand
Pro Bono, No.5 Gallery, Dunedin, New
Zealand
1992
Winter Songs, Judith Anderson
Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Islands of Memory, Solutions
Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Paintings, No.5 Gallery, Dunedin,
New Zealand
The 127th day of Bio-Chemical Warfare,
Solutions Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Watercolours, Aero Club Gallery,
Port Chalmers, New Zealand
1991
The 126th day of Bio-Chemical
Warfare, Super Eight, Dunedin, New Zealand
Pig's Jaws, Judith Anderson Gallery,
Auckland, New Zealand
Dark Landscape and the Word, No.5
Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
1990
Recent Paintings, Bowen Galleries,
Wellington, New Zealand
Paintings, Marshall Seifert Gallery,
Dunedin, New Zealand
State Terrorism, Proba Gallery,
Auckland, New Zealand
1989
Fydor Fydor, Proba Gallery,
Auckland, New Zealand
1988
Pro Maximu, Marshall Seifert
Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
1987
First Show, Marshall Seifert
Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
1986
Tongue and Grouve, Chippendale
House, Dunedin, New Zealand
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2013
Precise Operations, Factor 44,
Antwerp, Belgium
Curated by Alexander Kennedy
2012
Sound Full, Dunedin Public Art
Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Curated by Caleb Kelly and Aaron
Kriesler
2010
Black Light, I.C.A.N., Newtown,
Sydney, Australia
curated by Scott Donovan
2009
How will we know when we are there?,
CNEAI, Paris, France
curated by Lee Ranaldo and Leah
Singer
Sensational Fix/Sonic Youth et al,
Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany, Konsthal Malmo, Reina Sofia, Madrid.
curated by Roland Gronenboom and
Sonic Youth
2008
Sensational Fix/Sonic Youth et al,
LiFE, Saint Nazaire, France
and Musion, Bolzano, Italy
curated by Roland Gronenboom and
Sonic Youth
100/21/21, Gertrude Street,
Melbourne, Australia
curated by Marco Fusinato, Oren
Ambachi
2007
The Secret Life of Painting, Dunedin
Public Art Gallery, New Zealand
with Simon Ingram, Judy Millar,
Miranda Parkes, etc
curated by Justin Paton
Telecom Prospect, City Gallery
Wellington, New Zealand
with Simon Denny, Nova Paul, Judy
Millar, Jason Grieg, etc
curated by Heather Galbraith
Blue Movies, Blue Oyster Gallery,
Dunedin
curated by Nathan Thompson
2006
All Tomorrow's Parties, Minehead,
England
curated by Thurston Moore
Tomorrow Knows, Artspace, Sydney,
Australia
curated by Scott Donovan
Painting Now, Blue Oyster Gallery,
Dunedin
Op-Shop, Dunedin Public Art Gallery,
New Zealand
curated by Cathy Helps
2004
Waterworld, Scott Donovan Gallery,
Sydney
Cuckoo-Borough, Westspace, Melbourne
Cake Stall, Blue Oyster Gallery,
Dunedin, New Zealand
2003
Asia-Pacific Triennial, Brisbane,
Australia
2001
Art.Music, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Sydney, Australia
1999
Obilque Project, Otira, New Zealand
Sound Shelter, Lopdell House,
Auckland, New Zealand
Grunt Machine, Physics Room,
Christchurch, New Zealand
1998
Southern Lights, City Art Gallery,
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Karaokes, DPAG/ACAG/ and others,
New Zealand
1997
Now Showing, DPAG/ACAG/ and others,
New Zealand
1996
Power, Friezhaus, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
1995
Sleeve, Teststrip, Auckland, New Zealand
1994
Blue Blood, Dunedin Public Art
Gallery Dunedin, New Zealand
Prostrate Canterbury, High St
Project, Christchurch, New Zealand
1992
Body of the Land, South Island Art
Projects, Dunedin, New Zealand
1991
Te Mihaia Hou, Te Whare Taonga o
Waikato/Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, New Zealand
1990
Landscapes, Judith Anderson Gallery,
Auckland, New Zealand
Video
2007
The Black Album, 19mins/DV
Reason, 36 mins/DV
Stlkr/PC, 36 mins/DV
Grnwrld, 26 minutes/DV
2006
Bridge, 46mins/DV
2005
1.
Catastrophe, 36mins/DV
2.
2003
Gas, 12mins/DV
2002
Kill Your Idols, 39mins/DV
2001
Coogee, 5mins/DV
Untitled #2, 26mins/DV
1999
Models Suck, 4mins/DV
Geri, 10mins/DV
1998
The New Edinburgh, 55mins/Hi8
1997
Driving a car across the carpet, 3mins/Hi8
The Millenium Falcon Problem,
7mins/Hi8
Horses, 4mins/Hi8
The Rainy Day, 14mins/Hi8
Heavy Psychedelia, 5mins/Hi8
1996
Untitled #1, 17mins/Hi8
1994
I am a T.V. Station, 2 hrs 45
mins/Hi8
1991
The Hundred and twenty eighth day of
Bio-Chemical warfare, 25 mins/Hi8
Bibliography (selected)
Bikman, Linda. “Chronicles”, Time,
Vol.145 No.2, (New York), 16 January 1995.
Bollinger, Nick. “Please Go On”. The
New Zealand Listener, (Auckland), 6 March 1999.
Brown, David. “Taking On”. The Daily
News, (Los Angeles), 24 July 1988.
Brown, Judith. “The South Island”,
Monitor, (Auckland), July 1990.
Bugden, Emma. “A Young Person’s
Guide to the Library”, University of Otago, (Dunedin), 1999.
Cain, Nick. Invisible Jukebox, The
Wire (London), April 2007
Coley, Byron, review of "Future
Artists", The Wire (London), June 2007
Craw, Robin. “His name is Car-body”,
CLM Studios Multiples, (Dunedin), 1994.
Cuming, Simon. “Grunt Machine”, The
Physics Room, (Christchurch), 1999.
Dale, Richard. “State Terrorism”.
The New Zealand Herald, (Auckland), 29 March 1990.
Eggleton, David. “The Bared Wire
Pastoral”. Art New Zealand No.73, (Auckland),Summer 1994/5.
Eggleton, David. “Impure
Crossovers”.The New Zealand Listener, (Auckland), 9 May 1998.
Findlay, Michael. “Southern
Lights-150 years of Otago landscape art”, Dunedin Public Art Gallery,
(Dunedin), 1998.
Glass, Seymour. “The noise of the
food falling from the beaks of the Sacred Chickens”, Bananafish No.6, (San
Francisco), 1991.
Joy, Jerome. “Collage Jukebox”.
Musee d'Art Contemporain, (Lyon), 1999.
Mansfield, Darien. Art New Zealand
No.52, (Auckland), Spring 1989.
Matthews, Philip. “Fistful of
Drones”. The Wire No.184, (London), June 1999.
Merritt, David. “The Phonetics of Noise”.
The Body in the Land, South Island Art Projects,(Dunedin), 1992.
Meyer, Bill. “On the Darkside”.
Magnet No.29, (New York), July/August 1997.
Neate, Robin. “Now Showing”.
Exhibitour/Museum Directors Federation, (Wellington), 1997.
Porter, Gwynneth. “Blue Blood”.
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, (Dunedin), 1994.
Porter, Gwynneth. “Frayed Nerves and
Boredom’s Mantlepiece”. LOG.illustrated No.4, (Christchurch), Wiinter 1998.
Russell, Bruce. “Notes Towards What
is Free?”. The Body in the Land, South Island Art Projects, (Dunedin), 1992.
Tyler, Linda. ”Te Mihaia Hou”.
Waikato Museum of Art and History, (Hamilton), 1991.
Tyler, Linda. “Pro Bono”. CLM
Graphica Multiples, (Dunedin) 1993.
Urbahn, Terry. “The Karaokes” .
Exhibitour/Museum Directors Federation, (Wellington), 1999.
Wilton, Louise. Art New Zealand
No.59, (Auckland), Winter 1991.
Writings by Michael Morley
(selected)
Alex Bag, LOG illustrated, #2,
Christchurch, 1996 pp2, black and white
15 Psychic Orgasms: The Paintings of
Georganne Deen, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, 1999. pp6, colour
KIT, Artists at Work, School of Art,
Otago Polytechnic, 2002
Recent Work: David Haines and Joyce
Hinterding, Artists at Work, School of Art, Otago Polytechnic, 2004
The Magicians of Evil -Part the
first, Natural Selection, No.2, Auckland 2004
Powderfinger, exhibition catalogue,
<www.powderfingercatalog.blogspot.com>
You Pose You Lose: Silent incidence
in a visual field, Scope, No.1, Dunedin, 2006, <www.thescopes.org>
Morley: You Pose You Lose,
Sensational Fix fanzine No.3, Rotterdam, 2006
Discography
THE DEAD C (Michael Morley, Bruce
Russell, Robbie Yeats, 1986-present)
1. Perform
Max Harris CS Diabolic Root(NZ) 1987
2. The
Live Dead C CS Xpressway(NZ) 1988
3. DR503 LP Flying Nun(NZ) 1988
4. The
Sun Stabbed EP 7" Xpressway(NZ) 1988
5. DR503b CS Xpressway(NZ) 1989
6. Trapdoor
Fucking Exit CS Precious Metal(NZ) 1990
7. Helen
Said This LP Siltbreeze(USA) 1990
8. Eusa
Kills LP Flying Nun(NZ) 1990
9. Runway CS Precious Metal(NZ) 1990
10. Hell
is Now Love 7" Siltbreeze(USA) 1991
11. Power 7" Forced Exposure(USA) 1991
12. DR503 CD Feel Good All Over(USA) 1992
13. Harsh
70's Reality 2xLP Siltbreeze(USA) 1992
14. Clyma
est Mort LP ProPOOP(USA) 1992
15. The
Dead C vs Sebadoh 7" Siltbreeze(USA) 1993
16. Trapdoor
Fucking Exit CD Siltbreeze(USA) 1993
17. Metalheart 7" PM/CHNZ) 1994
18. The
Operation of the Sun LP Siltbreeze(USA) 1994
19. World
Peace Hope et al CD Shock(UK) 1994
20. Clyma
est Mort LP
reissue Siltbreeze(USA) 1994
21. Metalheart 7" Siltbreeze(USA) 1995
21. The
White House LP/CD
Siltbreeze(USA) 1995
22. Trapdoor
Fucking Exit CD reissue Siltbreeze(USA) 1995
23. Repent LP/CD Siltbreeze(USA) 1996
24. Tusk LP/CD Siltbreeze(USA) 1997
25. Harsh
70's Reality CD
reissue Siltbreeze(USA) 1998
26. Stealth/The
Factory 7” Sub Pop(USA) 2000
27. The
Dead C 2xCD Language Recordings(NZ) 2000
28. New
Electric Music CD Language Recordings(NZ) 2002
29. The
Damned CD Starlight Furniture Co.(USA) 2003
30. Untitled 12" Fat Cat(UK) 2005
31. Vain,
Erudite, and Stupid 2xCD Ba Da Bing Records(USA) 2006
32. Power/Bad
Politics 7" Ba Da Bing(USA) 2006
33. L.A.
Confidential 12" Super Sound(Australia) 2006
34. Future
Artists 2xLP/CD Ba Da Bing Records(USA) 2007
35. Secret
Earth LP BaDaBing
Records(USA) 2008
36. Golden
Canine LP BaDaBing Records (USA) 2008
37. Patience LP/CD/DL
BaDaBing Records (USA) 2010
38. The
Dead C vs Rangda LP BaDaBing Records (USA) 2013
39. Armed
Courage LP/CD/DL BaDaBing Records (USA) 2013
Compilations
1. 'I
Love This' on Display Ideas for Supermarket CS Toytown Int.(Australia) 1987
2. '3
Years' on Xpressway Pile=Up CS
Xpressway(NZ) 1988
3. 'Fire'
on Fingernails CS
Toytown Int.(Australia) 1988
4. 'The
Wheel' on In Love With These Times:1st Ed. LP/CD Flying Nun(NZ) 1989
5. '3
Years(Remix)' on Xpressway Pile=Up LP/CD Avalanche(UK) 1990
6. '15.12.90'
on I Hear the Devil Calling Me 7" DragCity(USA)1991
7. 'Puberty'
& 'This Map' on Bullets Wrapped in
Sugar 7" Bananafish(USA)1991
8. 'Tranenbeutel'
on What's That Noise 7" Raffmond(Germany)1992
9. 'Bad
Politics','Crazy I Know' and 'Angel' on Making Losers Happy LP/CD
Drag City(USA) 1993
10. 'Outside'
on Puke on Your CD Player CD
Beast666(Japan) 1997
GATE (Michael Morley solo and with
others)
1. Fear
of Music CS Precious Metal(NZ) 1989
2. Hate CS Precious Metal(NZ) 1990
3. Metric CS Precious Metal(NZ) 1991
4. Cropped
Silver Hi-Lo CS Precious Metal(NZ) 1992
5. Cachian CS Precious Metal(NZ) 1992
6. Tonken/Trig. 7" Precious Metal(NZ) 1992
7. Prophet/Rebel 7" Siltbreeze(USA) 1992
8. Trance CS Precious Metal(NZ) 1992
9. Sunshine/Ives 7" Twisted Village(USA) 1992
10. Guitar LP Majora(USA) 1992
11. I.O.M.(1967-1992) 7" Precious Metal(NZ) 1992
12. J.D.G.E. 2x7" Precious Metal(NZ) 1993
13. Amerika LP Majora(USA) 1993
14. 577
Crash 7" Precious Metal(NZ) 1993
15. Metric LP Majora(USA) 1994 reissue
16. The
Dew Line CD Table of the Elements(USA) 1994
17. Lounge CD Twisted Village(USA) 1994
18. Live
USA 1994 Vol.1 LP Precious Metal(NZ) 1995
19. Live
Boston/NYC 1994 CD Poon Village(USA) 1995
20. The
Lavender Head 2xLP Precious Metal(NZ) 1996
20. The
Monolake CD
Table of the Elements(USA) 1997
21. The
Lavender Head.1.1.1.2-2.1.2.2 2xLP Hell's
Half Halo(USA)1998
22. My
Dear Sweet Reluctant Sweetheart 2xCD
Hell’s Half Halo(USA) 2000
23. 3M 7” Tondstat(Germany) 2000
24. The
Wisher Table CD Precious Metal(NZ) 2000
25. v3 CD Precious
Metal(NZ) 2000
26. Bang
Bang/Upside Down 8" De Player(NL) 2009
27. A
Republic of Sadness LP
BaDaBing Records(USA) 2010
28. The
Dew Line (re-issue) 2xLP MIE Music (UK) 2011
29. Damned
Revolutions LP
Ultramarine (Italy) 2012
30. Body/Gate/Head LP Feeding Tube (USA) 2013
31. Moths LP
Dilettante Curiositie (France) 2013
Compilations
1. 'Never'
on I Hear the Devil Calling Me 7" DragCity(USA)1991
2. 'That's
Gate' on Bullets Wrapped in Plastic 7" Bananafish(USA)1991
3. 'I.O.M.(1967-1992)
excerpt' on Never Fear the Unfearable 7" Bananafish(USA)1994
4. 'To
Kiss the Wall' on Le Jazz Non CD Corpus Hermeticum(NZ) 1996
5. 'Vultures'
on Waiting to be old CD Opprobrium(NZ) 1997
contributions to other releases
BODY/GATE/HEAD
1. Glare
Luring Yo LP Feeding Tube(USA) 2012
FAUST
1. Rien CD Table of the Elements(USA) 1995
GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION
1. Northern
Exposure LP/CDStarlight(USA)
1995
MICHAEL MORLEY
1. The
Pavilion of Fools CD Gdv(NZ) 1996
MICHAEL MORLEY & BRUCE RUSSELL
1. Radiation/Four
Letters 7" Corpus Hermeticum(NZ)995
SONIC YOUTH
1. Dirty
(Deluxe Edition) 2XCD and 4XLP David Geffen Company(USA) 2003
TANAKA-NIXON MEETING (Michael Morley
and Danny Butt)
1. The
Sound Echoing in the Blackness 8"
Precious Metal(NZ) 1994
2. Annihilation 8"
Precious Metal(NZ) 1994
3. The
Burning House 8" Precious Metal(NZ) 1995
4. Blessed
Tanks 7"
Giardia Recordings(USA) 1996
5. North
Harbour Free CD
Gdv(NZ) 1996
6. The
Ark LP
Giardia(USA) 1997
7. Twelve
Inches Heaven 12”
Hell’s Half Halo(USA) 2000
THE WEEDS
1. Wheatfields/Trouble 7" Flying
Nun(NZ)1986
THIS KIND OF PUNISHMENT
1. In
The Same Room LP
Flying Nun(NZ)1988
2. In
The Same Room LP/CD
Ajax(USA)1993
TWO FOOT FLAME
1. Two
Foot Flame LP/CD
Matador(USA) 1995
2. Ultra
Drowning LP/CD
Matador(USA) 1997
WRECK SMALL SPEAKERS ON EXPENSIVE
STEREOS (not complete)
1. Mind
Thoughts Surface CS Wreck(NZ) 1981
2. My
Blue Fairy Godmother CS Wreck(NZ) 1982
3. Over
My Skull CS Wreck(NZ) 1983
4. 3VM CS Wreck(NZ) 1983
5. Four
Seasons CS Wreck(NZ) 1983
6. World
Falls Apart CS Wreck(NZ) 1984
7. The
Cave CS Wreck(NZ) 1985
8. Blues
Masters of the Leith Delta CS Wreck(NZ)
1985
9. River
Falling Love 12" Flying NunNZ) 1987
10. A
Child's Guide CS Xpressway(NZ)1990
11. River
Falling Love CD Ajax(USA) 1993
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