David Morrish

     
David Morrish
Memorial University of Newfoundland

dmorrish@grenfell.mun.ca
www.davidmorrish.com


Biography

David Morrish, a Full Professor at Grenfell Campus: Memorial University of Newfoundland, teaches photography in the BFA-VA program. M.F.A. (1985) University of Calgary, Alberta. Co-author of Copper Plate Photogravure, Focal Press, 2003, with Marlene MacCallum.

Morrish has exhibited photogravure prints exclusively since 1996, nationally and internationally. Notable work includes portraits of poorly done taxidermy, animal remains, and landscape gravures of the Great Northern Peninsula, NL and The Burren, Co. Clare, IE. Artist’s book works, GAZE and DIED use photogravure and letterpress under his imprint: DeadCat Press. Recent research explores human mortality, faux biography, provenance, and the museum archive. http://www.davidmorrish.com

Themed Panel

Artists’ Publishing Network: A Collaborative Proposal
Abstract for Artists’ Publishing Network: A Collaborative Proposal

This themed panel will explore issues related to the development of artists’ publishing networks. The panel members will present two related, collaborative projects, explore a series of case studies and then conclude with a directed discussion session focusing on the question: what should an artist’s publishing network constitute? The anticipated outcome from this panel will be to form a network of interested participants in a future artists’ publishing network.
The two projects that we will present are: Artists’ Publishing: An Investigation into Digital Media as a means to Integrate Dissemination into the Creative Cycle, which seeks to identify ways in which artists can gain more creative control of the relationship between their production and its interaction with the viewer/audience; and Expanded Artists’ Books: Envisioning the Future of the Book, that aims to widen the audience for the artist’s book while encouraging the creation of new work by artists in other media.
This panel will be a foundational information gathering session for the next step in creating a partnership between educational, cultural, economic institutions and individuals. We seek to identify the gaps in our current system of artist-based networks and pinpoint key issues and potential partners in developing a pertinent and sustainable network dedicated to promoting artists’ publishing. We will be actively soliciting participation in the next phase of grant support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which offers a funding program for Partnership Grants: these are multi-institutional, multi-year projects that provide the opportunity for national and international partnering on key issues.