Saskia Morris (she/her) is a contemporary artist currently living, working and creating on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation.
Saskia works across a broad range of media, including printmaking, sculpture, time-based media and digital fabrication. Her work consistently examines how social and technological changes distort and amplify our sense of self and our place in society.
Saskia grew up across remote and regional Australia, living in Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland and Tasmania. She studied printmaking and sculpture at the Australian National University’s School of Art and Design, graduating in 2021. Saskia also holds a Bachelors of Arts, majoring in English Literature and Art History from ANU.
Education & Employment
2023 - ongoing
Makerspace Coordinator and Technology Experience Officer: Whitehorse Manningham Libraries
2019 - 2023
Technical Officer and Head of Culture & Inclusion: ANU MakerSpace, Research School of Physics & Engineering, Australian Nation University
2021 - 2022
Artist Assistant for Vivienne Binns
2021
Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours), Australian National University
2014 - 2019
Flexible Double Degree: Bachelors of Arts (Literature) & Visual Arts (Printmedia & Drawing), Australian National University
Exhibitions
2025
de-extinct (solo), Library at The Dock, Melbourne
Megalo: 45 Years of Print, Megalo Print Studio
Melbourne Art Print Fair, Linden New Art, Melbourne
2022
Arresting the Echo (solo), Platform Arts, Geelong
Merging Realms, Tributary Projects, Canberra. Curated by Claudia Hogan
Goulburn Art Award (Highly Commended), Goulburn
2021
Graduating Exhibition (Honours), ANU School of Art and Design
ANU Drawing Prize 2021, ANU School of Art and Design, Canberra
2020
10th Compact Prints International Print Exhibition & Exchange, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville
Fire Relief (Fun)draiser: Fundraising Auction for Mogo Local Aboriginal Land Council, Tributary Projects, Canberra
2019
Graduating Exhibition, ANU School of Art and Design, Canberra
Long Way Around, aMBUSH Gallery, Canberra
The Politics of Memory, Sculpture & Spatial Practice, ANU School of Art & Design, Canberra
Showcase, Art & Music Library, ANU, Canberra
Fifty-Squared, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2018
Give and Take, Foyer Gallery, ANU School of Art and Design, Canberra
plate_tone, The Print Council of Australia, Collins Place Gallery, Melbourne
Small Works, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
Science in art, art in science: ACMD Acquisitive Award, Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery, Melbourne
ANU Drawing Prize 2018, finalist, Foyer Gallery, ANU School of Art & Design, Canberra
Inner North Art Prize, finalist, The Front Cafe & Gallery, Canberra
2017
Dysfunction, Smith’s Alternative, Canberra
Awards, Scholarships and Grants
2024
From Craft to Code, National Science Week Grant
2022
Highly Commended, Goulburn Art Award
College of Arts & Social Sciences Teaching Grant
2021
University Medal, Australia National University
Gray Smith and Joan Scott Prize
ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences Honours Scholarship
Residencies and Collaborative Projects
2024
Artlab Artist and Facilitator, National Gallery of Australia
Megalo Editions, Megalo Print Studio, Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
2022
Cahoots, You Are Here, Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
Sharing Stories Arts Exchange, artsACT, Yuin, Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
Publications and Panels
Hum, Tree Paper Gallery, 2024.
‘Arresting the Echo: Allegories of Printmaking in Voice Recordings and Performing Mourning.’ Findings, Issue 1, The Australian Council for University Art and Design Schools, 1-18, 2023.
‘Arresting the Echo: Using The Tenets Of Printmedia To Work With The Voice And Perform Mourning’, Impact 12: The Printmaker’s Voice, The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, 21-25 Sept 2022.
Emergent: A larger framework’, Imprint Magizine 54, no. 4 (Summer): 30 - 31. 2019. Available here.
‘Figures of Influence: Printmaking in Conversation Panel’, A Paper Inheritance: Exploring the lineages of the Printmedia & Drawing Workshop, ANU School of Art and Design Gallery, 2019
Commission & Design
2025
The Telling of the Untold Story of Tabitha Booth, Production Designer and Art Department
2018
Pop Up Posters Paddington, Woollahra City Council for Paddington Library, Sydney
Team Robot shirt design, Shirty Science in collaboration with The University of Canberra (UC)
Thank You keyring, ANU Alumni & Donor Relations
Collections
Printmedia and Drawing, ANU School of Art & Design
Printmedia and Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), University of Melbourne
Zines and Artist’s Books, The National Library of Australia
Selected Workshops and Community Activities
Artslab, National Gallery of Australia, 2024
CSIRO Young Indigenous Women in STEM Workshop, 2022
Advanced Etching and Relief, Using Digital Fabrication in Printmaking Practices, ANU School of Art and Design, 2022
Social Fabrics: Crafting Communities, ‘Sewing Circuits’, ANU School of Art and Design, 2021
‘Day one: Sewing Circuits’, for Masters of Applied Cybernetics, 3A Institute, 2019 - ongoing
Various community workshops, Thrive ANU Wellbeing, 2020 - 2023
Zine Fair 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Guide, Queanbeyan Printing Museum, 2018