“George Morton-Clark reinterprets the visual language of mass animation and pop culture as a site of memory and distortion. His work excavates how collective childhood images — once innocent — become unstable, fractured, and abstracted through adult perception. By breaking apart familiar cartoon forms, Morton-Clark situates his practice within the lineage of postwar abstraction, while…

Opera Gallery Madrid is pleased to present “It's Friday All Week”, the first solo show in Spain by the British artist George Morton-Clark, showcasing his most recent work. Bringing George Morton-Clark’s work to Opera Gallery reflects a desire to convey our in-built philosophy of vital optimism—through the vibrant empathy his works arouse in the beholder.…

Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China May 15th- June 19th 2023 The show comprises my most recent works, created with layers and disturbance in mind. The show's name came to mind as everything I have done in the past few months has amounted to this. When creating a show of this magnitude, you eat, sleep and dream…

Solo show, Singapore, Opera Gallery Prologue:- In this series, Morton-Clark’s characters are often tantalising syntheses of abstract elements, all living in and navigating their own mysterious universe of chance encounters and ambiguous happenings. But there are no guises and no charades; just honest characters perhaps each with their own allegorical stories. They tell tales of…

Myths, Heroes and Mad ScientistsThe Favoured Refugees Myths, Heroes and Mad Scientists  / Hyun YI (Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Art In Culture)   George Morton-Clark is a British artist. His work resembles scribbles on a child’s sketchbook at first glance, with intense monochromatic colors, flat compositions without perspective, scenes full of atypical lines rushing like a…

PREFACE "This Is As Far As I Started", Opera Gallery London is pleased to present the new series of works by George Morton-Clark. British artist George Morton-Clark presents a playful new body of artworks in his recognisably animated style. The artist adds originality and story to already familiar cartoon characters including Popeye, Bambi, Garfield and…