Alex Gene Morrison is a contemporary painter and video/animator born in

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

in 1975. He studied painting at the

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between 2000 and 2002. He had a solo show at

Stella Vine Stella Vine (born Melissa Jane Robson, 1969) is an English artist, who lives and works in London. Her work is figurative painting, with subjects drawn from personal life, as well as from rock stars, royalty, and other celebrities. In 2001, she ...

's Gallery

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in 2004."Rosy Wilde: Previous show"
,

. Retrieved on 3 May 2010. He has had solo shows at Rockwell Gallery, London, in 2006 at The Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, in 2007,

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, Cardiff, in 2008, and Charlie Smith Gallery, London, in 2010. His painting was exhibited in the

John Moores Painting Prize The John Moores Painting Prize is a biennial award to the best contemporary painting, submission is open to the public. The prize is named for Sir John Moores, noted philanthropist, who established the award in 1957. The winning work and short-li ...

in Liverpool in 2009. Morrison's work has been shown internationally.

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