Madame Morison

Television (Full Length) – 2005

..the worst thing about it is it's unpredictable. Like you never really know when it's going to hit.
– Julia Morison on developing rheumatoid arthritis in her 30s

For me her work has always shimmied between opposites actually. And what I mean there is she works between or along a continuum that has a figurative basis or end, and a much more overtly abstract form.
– Art dealer Jonathan Smart on Julia Morison's art, early in this report

Julia Morison creates her work from something arbitrary like a drip of paint, the crazing of two incompatible varnishes or a squirt of polystyrene foam. Guided by instinct, she forms an order from the chaos of her materials.
– Director/narrator Sonja de Friez introduces Julia Morison's art

Now I'm actually working with chance, then imposing myself upon that — trying not to impose, but to let it happen; to have a rapport with the materials I think is what I'm trying to do now .
– Julia Morison on how she works, near the end of this documentary