Simon Morrissey

Simon Morrissey is a curator whose practice responds to the idea of place as both the generator of curatorial narratives and conceptual frameworks through which exhibitions are generated and artists commissioned to create new work.

Morrissey is the Director of Foreground. Established in 2007, Foreground makes new art for new audiences. The organisation delivers an ambitious program that spans commissioning new temporary and permanent artworks in the diverse social and physical structures of communities. Foreground bring diverse partners together to make distinctive projects happen, which often see social communities become artistic collaborators in the creation of new artworks for the place they come from.

Morrissey’s curatorial projects beyond Foreground have been produced in a diversity of contexts including as public galleries and museums in the UK, a major international touring exhibition for the British Council and exhibitions for leading commercial galleries. He has written extensively on contemporary art and edited publications for numerous leading galleries and publishers in Britain and internationally including Tate. Recent significant projects beyond Foreground’s programme include Qwaypurlake, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, 2015, and We The People Are The Work, a major multi-site project across Plymouth in 2017.

Morrissey is Associate Professor of Fine Art at the University of the West of England, Bristol.