She was born in North Wales, studied Fine Art at Newcastle University and the University of Reading, and has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s. She is a Founder Member of the artist-run charity Art in Perpetuity Trust, and in 2010 was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts. She has exhibited worldwide in over thirty solo shows and many group exhibitions, and is represented in private and public collections including Arts Council England, British Council, Contemporary Arts Society, Government Art Collection, and Museum of Wales, Cardiff. In 2013 she was Selector/Mentor for Jerwood Painting Fellowships, and in 2014 a Selector at the John Moores Painting Prize China in Shanghai. Her enjoyment of poetry dates from the mid 1960s, when as a student she heard readings by Basil Bunting, Allen Ginsberg and others at Tom and Connie Pickard’s Morden Tower Book Place, in Newcastle upon Tyne. www.malimorris.co.uk