Fred Morris
Fred Morris- Creating sculpting out of raw materials
With no plan in the back of his head, Fred started spending a lot of times looking at the most incredible design projects that people have made in the past. Art kept coming up. One day. Fred got the idea to make a sculpture, he secretly started to buy materials and started welding his first sculpture.
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The human form is so recognisable, that the smallest mistake is immediately obvious. Fred does not know how to describe what it feels like, when a thousand steel nuts, delivered in a bag, start seemingly cooperating to create a beautiful form. It’s almost like they conspire to trick your eyes into believing that you are looking at soft lines, in complete contradiction to the raw materials.
Fred Morris grew up in a very conservative Christian home and was never explored to any art in meaningful way. He never watched theatre production or visited an art gallery, outside of school trips. Over the years Fred stared to travel the world and this is where he developed a deep, almost instinctive interest in all things creative.
Fred’s first two pieces were sold by a curator within the first week. Once the idea of becoming a sculpture got into his head, he had no other option but to find a way. He became lost in his sculpting. Thankfully, the little voice in his head that kept telling me that sculpting was not a worthwhile pursuit was soon shouted down by the rapidly increasing demand for my work.
“If you do what you love, you’ll never work again”. Today, I am literally Mark Anthony’s walking cliché.