Born Derry 1960
Lives and works in Derry, Northern Ireland

EDUCATION

1980–83            Manchester Polytechnic
1979–80            University of Ulster at Jordanstown

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS

2011
this then, Regional Cultural Centre, Donegal, Ireland
Window Sill, Context Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
2010
From Day One, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
This Then, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2008
Me and my shadow, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany
2006
Polestar, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
2005
Premises, 3 works for 3 shops, Derry
2002
Home Entertainment, Orchard Gallery, Derry
2001
Atlantic Drift, City Council Offices, Strand Road, Derry
2000
The Work of a Dog, Context Gallery, Derry
1999
A Day’s Work (permanent video work) Mullan’s Bar, Little James’ St, Derry
1997
Past Conversation (installation using sound), Old Bookies, Chamberlain Street, Derry
1994
Comm II, Orchard Gallery, Derry
1992
Comm, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1988
Sculpture at the Centre, Pilot’s Row Community Centre, Derry
Art in Conflict, Donegal County Museum, Letterkenny
1987
Flight of the Cooker, Pilot’s Row Community Centre, Derry
1986
In Their Place, Nine Sculptures for Derry City Walls, City Council Arts
1985
Sculpture, Orchard Gallery, Derry

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012
All Humans Do, David Beattie, Rhona Byrne, Brendan Earley, Aleana Egan, Fergus Feehily, Mark Garry, Kevin Kirwan, Bea Mc Mahon,
Locky Morris, Dennis Mc Nulty, Niamh O’Malley, Tamsin Snow. White Box, Broome St, NYC
2009
Fantopia. A state of impossible perfection. Or, how to live with perfect people (and not kill them), mother’s tankstation, Dublin
2008
A Shout in the Street, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2007
Things we may have missed, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2006
The Disembodied Eye, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
Dogs Have No Religion, Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague (toured to Tralee)
2005
The Trouble with Talkies, ADI Space, London
2003
B-Lomo (artists engage with Leopold Bloom), Context Gallery, Derry
2002–3
Something Else: Contemporary Art From Ireland, Turku Art Museum; Amos Anderson
Art Museum, Helsinki; Oulu City Art Museum; Joensuu Art Museum
2001
Small Steps, Context Gallery, Derry; Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Bloody Sunday (with Willie Doherty and Philip Napier), Orchard Gallery, Derry
2000
In Search of Experience – Reconsidering the Readymade, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Small Steps, The Ellipse Art Centre, Washington  
1998
Culture in Conflict, The Puffin Room, New York
1997
One of those Days, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany
1994
Dirty, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
 Schnittstellen, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
L’Imaginaire Irlandais, L’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
1988
North-west Artists, Foyle Arts Centre, Derry
GPA Awards for Emerging Artists, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Sculpture Open ’88, City Centre, Dublin
British Art Show, McLelland Galleries, Glasgow; Leeds City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London
New North, Tate Gallery, Liverpool; Laing Gallery, Newcastle; Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; Orchard Gallery, Derry; Mappin Gallery, Sheffield
Kunst Europa, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany
Strongholds, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
XLV Bienalle Venezia (Turkish Pavilion – Adam Yilmaz/Jarg Geismer) 
1987
Directions Out, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
State of the Nation, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
1986
Place as Object (with Jasper McKinney), Art and Research Exchange, Belfast
Political Life, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1984
Irish Contemporary Artists, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
New Art From Manchester, Salford Art Gallery
Object Matters, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Sculpture in the Garden, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
SIGMA Sculpture, Oldham Art Gallery
SIGMA Sculpture, Arndale Centre, Manchester
Summer Show. Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
1982
Group Show, John Holden Gallery, Manchester

SELECTED CATALOGUES/PUBLICATIONS2008

2010
Luke Clancy, ‘Everyman’s Antacid Antidiscipline’, Mother’s Annual 2010
Outi Remes and Pam Skelton, Conspiracy Dwellings: Surveillance in Contemporary Art, Cambridge Scholar Publishing
Chris Clarke, Practicing Everyday life: The Use of Anecdote in the work of Locky Morris,  this then, Locky Morris, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
2008
A Shout in the Street: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2007
Art and the Disembodied Eye: Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2006
Dogs Have No Religion, exh. cat., Czech Museum Of Fine Arts
Locky Morris: Lucky, Declan Sheehan
Jes Fernie (ed.), Two Minds, Artists and Architects in collaboration, Black Dog Publishing Ltd, London
2005
Anne Tallentire, Notes on ‘Itch’, by Locky Morris, 1+1+1, Issue 2, Double Agents, London
2003
Home Entertainment, ‘Peace and Queues’, Padraig Timoney; ‘Home Entertainment’, Conor Mc Feely, exh. cat. (unpublished), Orchard Gallery, Derry
2002
Something Else: Contemporary Art from Ireland, exh. cat., Turku Art Museum; Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki; Oulu City Art Museum; Joensuu Art Museum
2001
Anne Tallentire/John Seth, Dispersal
The Following is an Extract from Full Circle (collaborative sound work with Conor Mc Feely), exh. cat. (CD insert), Orchard Gallery, Derry
2000
The Work of a Dog, exh, cat., Context Gallery, Derry
Declan Sheehan, In Context (Practise, Practice), Context Gallery, Derry
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Leith, Small Steps, exh. cat., Kaleidoscope
1997
Dorothy Walker, Modern Irish Art, Lilliput Press, Dublin
Conor Mc Feely, Home Economics by Locky Morris, Context Gallery, Derry
One of Those Days, exh. cat., Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany
1996
L'imaginaire Irlandais, exh. cat., L’École supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris
Liam Kelly, Thinking Long: Contemporary Art in the North of Ireland, Gandon Editions
1994
Hygiene, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Liam Kelly (ed,), The City as Art: Interrogating the Polis, A. I. C. A.
Angela Kingston, Comm, exh. cat. /artist’s book, Orchard Gallery, Derry
Schnittstellen, exh. cat., Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany
1993
Kunst Europa, exh. cat.,  Mannheimer Kunstverein, Germany
Jurgen Schneider, Irrland Ireland Irland, Sonnerband der edition Druckhaus 11
1992
Strongholds, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1990
British Art Show, exh. cat., Hayward Gallery, London
New North, exh. cat.,  Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1988
GPA Awards for Emerging Artists, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1987
Open Air Sculpture, WJ Strachen Zwemmer and the Tate Gallery, London
Directions Out, exh. cat.,  Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

SELECTED ARTICLES

2000
Michael O’Sullivan, ‘Sightlines’, The Washington Post, 26 May
Declan Sheehan, ‘Locky Morris’, Frieze, 54
‘One of those Days’, Mannheimer Morgen, 23 September
Marianne Hartigan, ‘Ready-made collection’, Sunday Tribune, 30 January
Lars Saari, ‘Derrysta-ilman kompromisseja’, Turun Sanomat
1999
‘In Search of Experience’, The Sculpture Society of Ireland, March/April
Kieran Owens, ‘Ordinary Decent Objects’, Event Guide, 15 January
1996
Judith Higgins, ‘Art from the Edge, Part 1I’, Art In America
‘Libérés des tabous, les plasticiens irlandais explorent le devenir de leur île’, Geneviève Breerette, Le Monde, 4 June
1994
Robert Clarke, ‘Sculptors get their hands dirty’, The Guardian, 25 January
Elaine Hogg, ‘Comm II, Orchard Gallery, Derry’, Circa, 68, Summer
Colin Darke, ‘Comm II: Orchard Gallery, Derry’, Frieze, 18, September
1991
Fiona Byrne-Sutton, ‘New North: Tate Gallery, Liverpool’, Alba, January
Cordelia Oliver, ‘Photography’, The Guardian, 5 January
Joseph Williams, ‘Messages shaped from the deep heart’s core’, The Times, 19 February
Sarah Craddock, ‘A drop of the Irish’, The Guardian, 20 February
Sean Cubbitt, ‘Eminent Formorians: Irish Art in Liverpool’, Circa
 ‘Ganz normaler, grotesker Alltag, Mannheimer Morgen, 22/23 June
Clare Henry, ‘Arts’, Glasgow Herald, 28 June
Clare Henry, ‘Kunst Europa’, Arts Review, 12 July
‘Die Kunst, die noch streitet’, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. 15 July
Irischer Alltag, englische Baume’, Rheinpfaltz, 17 July
1990
Richard Cork, ‘Woolly or Wily?’, The Listener, 5 July
Allen Wright, ‘Acts of defiance in more ways than one’, The Scotsman, 24 January
Bruce Bernard, ‘The Young Pretenders’, The Independent Magazine, 2 June
Tom Lubbock, ‘Signposts across the great divide’, The Independent on Sunday, 27 June
1987
John Roberts, ‘ Directions Out: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin’, Artscribe, September/October
Deirdre O'Connell, ‘In Their Place: Anthony Gormley/Locky Morris: City Walls, Derry’, Circa, July/August
Locky Morris, letter to Circa, September/October
1986
John Roberts, ‘ Political Life: Cornerhouse, Manchester’, Artscribe, November/December

AWARDS

2005
Visual Arts Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2003
Major Individual Artist Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2001
Art for Architecture Award, RSA, London
1994
Visual Arts Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
1992
Visual Arts Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
1990
Visual Arts Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland
1989
GPA Award for emerging artists
1988
Visual Arts Awards, Arts Council of Northern Ireland