Tony Morrow

Tony’s compellingly introspective work is drenched in symbolism, a self-invented language using modelled, cast and found pieces to express and record his response to the world. He devotes all his time to his work and lives in a remote estate in Inchture where he is kept inspired by his surroundings.

Well-known for his public commissions, such as the ‘Lobey Dosser’ in Glasgow and ‘Desperate Dan’ in Dundee, Tony has also won various awards, including a special commendation for portraiture by the Royal Scottish Academy for his sculpture ‘Listening to Schubert’. Tony’s other well-known works include four portrait heads of twentieth-century poets and he has several pieces of work in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection. He also had a work selected for display at the re-opening of Kelvingrove Museum in Glasgow and was the artist responsible for the bust of World War I veteran Alfred Anderson, donated to the Black Watch Museum in Perth.

Tony’s recent solo show at the Meffan Institute in Forfar, ‘A Fool’s Progress’, was a selection of works inspired by excerpts from his diaries, representing the highs and lows of the years 1992 to 2006. They were created from intricate castings of found or discarded objects.