Anthony Charles Morton
anthony.c.morton@gmail.com
Anthony Morton (b. Durban, South Africa. 1992) is an artist and theorist based in Bergen, Norway. Morton’s work has been exhibited at art institutions in China, Norway, and South Africa. He is currently the artistic research director of The Place of Shade, recently published in the Nordic Journal of Artistic Research (VIS 11). Morton studied contemporary art and philosophy in Japan, South Africa, and Norway. He was awarded an MA in Contemporary Art (2019) and an MA in Philosophy (2023) from the University of Bergen.
Through a naturalistic lens, using theory and painting as inquisitional tools, he explores the nature of images as phenomena—understood as expressions of the cosmos, manifestations of consciousness, and an unfolding historical narrative of the artistic tradition.
Morton’s images propose a space within, where things appear to exist. Due to their physical presence, they seem to have transcended the pictorial plane they propose. The direction of emergence, from inside the image space to beyond, implies a journey from a realm that evades physical access. The images—evident of these journeys—allude to a reason, an intention, an agency, and therefore, a message beckoning from within. They are manifest vehicles by which pictorial space is explored. Here, forms cite a multitude of departures towards allegorical narratives; an endeavour of visual helmsmanship, where images are becoming and have left the scent of seared steak.
