Born and raised in Melbourne, I’ve lived in the Adelaide Hills for the past four decades. My career as a neuroscientist has been replaced by full-time pursuit of the visual arts from my home studio. I am fascinated with the overall forms and surfaces in nature, as well as the underlying detailed structures. A major feature of my drawings is the behaviour of light as it is reflected, refracted or absorbed by living things and other objects. The tonal realism of my work seeks to capture sensations of texture, depth and movement, achieved by a slow process of detailed mark making on paper. I have been drawing full time and exhibiting since 2009.
Awards & Finalists
• Finalist, 2026 Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize.
• Finalist, 2025 Tatiara Art Prize.
• Second Prize, 2025 CanAssist Southern Highlands Botanical Art & Illustration Prize.
• Highly Commended Award, Botanical Art Society of Australia, Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, 2025.
• Honourable Mention, 2024 Celia Rosser Award, The Art of Botanical Illustration, Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
• Finalist, 2023 WAMA Art Prize.
• Finalist, 2023 Bluethumb Art Prize.
• Honourable Mention, 2022 Celia Rosser Award, The Art of Botanical Illustration,Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
• Finalist, 2022 SALA City of Unley Active Ageing Award .
• Finalist, 2022 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize .
• Madeleine Taylor Award, Highly Commended, Botanical Art Society of Australia, Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, 2022.
• Finalist, 2021 Bluethumb Art Prize.
• Honourable Mention in Madeleine Taylor Award, Flora, Botanical Art Society of Australia exhibition, Hobart, October, 2021.
• Winner of the Madeleine Taylor Award for Best in Show, Flora, Botanical Art Society of Australia Exhibition, 2019.
• Finalist in the 2018 Emma Hack Art Prize.
• Finalist in the 2017 Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize.
• High Commendation in the 2017Mitcham Art Prize.
• Finalist in the 2017 Emma Hack Art Prize.
• Winner of the 2016 Mitcham Art Prize.
• Selected for the Pencil Art Society 2nd International Juried Exhibition, 2016.
• Finalist in the 2016 Fleurieu Food & Wine Art Prize.
• Finalist in the 2016 Emma Hack Art Prize.
• Invited participant in the 2013 Kedumba Drawing Award.
• Finalist in the 2012 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize.
• Finalist in the 7th Prospect Portrait Prize, 2011.
• Finalist in the Nora Heysen Centenary Art Prize, 2011.
• Finalist in the 2011 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize.
• Finalist in the 2011 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.
• Commendation in the 2010Cancer Council Victoria Arts Awards.
Solo exhibitions
• Larger Than Life – a retrospective of drawings, Art Expression at 123 Fisher, Living Choice Fullarton, SA 5063, 4 April – 30 May, 2024.
• Inflorescent, Hughes Gallery, Fullarton Park Community Centre, Fullarton, SA, SALA Festival, 4 – 27 August, 2023.
• Floribunda – drawings by Judy Morris with poems by Ian Gibbins, Hahndorf Academy, Main Street Hahndorf, SA, 13 June – 26 July, 2015.
• Sensurious – drawings to stimulate the senses, The Gallery @ Pikes, Polish Hill River Road, Sevenhill, via Clare, SA 5453, 1 February – 26 March, 2014; and at Magpie Springs, Brookman Road, Hope Forest, SA 5172, 10 October, 2014 – 26 January, 2015.
• Laws of Nature, Art Images Gallery, Norwood, 31 August – 23 September, 2012.
• Extension – drawings of the exercising body, Flinders Medical Centre Promenade Gallery B, 29 March – 22 May, 2011.
Group exhibitions (partial list >2020 )
2026
• Flora: Nature’s Gift, Botanical Art Society of Australia exhibition, Royal Queensland Art Society, Broadbeach, QLD, 5-29 July 2026.
• Plantae 2026, Society of Botanical Artists Online Exhibition, 1-30 June, 2026 (2 works selected).
• Fleurieu Biennale Art Prize Exhibition, Fleurieu Arthouse, McLaren Vale, SA, 5 June – 5 July, 2026.
• Art in Full Bloom, Botanical Art Society of Australia at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, 25-29 March 2026.
2025
• Tatiara Art Prize Exhibition of Finalists, Walkway Gallery, Bordertown, SA, 26 September – 8 November 2025.
• CanAssist Southern Highlands Botanical Art & Illustration Prize exhibition, Retford Park, Bowral, NSW, 12 June – 6 July, 2025.
• Wise and Wonderful Women, Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, 15 May – 9 July 2025.
• Botanica 2025: The Art of Disguise and Deception, Garden Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, 5-21 April, 2025.
• Bountiful Botanicals: A Botanical Art Worldwide Exhibition, Belconnen Arts Centre, ACT, 28 March-18 May, 2025.
• Botanical Art Society of Australia Exhibition at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, 26-30 March 2025.
• Open Community Exhibition, City of Mitcham Library, Hawthorn, SA, 11 February- 27 April, 2025.
2024
• The Art of Botanical Illustration 17th Biennial Exhibition, Domain House, Melbourne, 28 September – 12 October, 2024.
• CanAssist Southern Highlands Botanical Art & Illustration Prize, Botanical Art Society of Australia, Retford Park, Bowral, NSW, 18 July-25 August, 2024.
• Plantae 2024, Society of Botanical Artists Online Exhibition, 1-30 June, 2024 (2 works selected).
• Botanical Art Society of Australia Exhibition at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Exhibition Building, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, 20-24 March 2024.
• Gallery One 50th Anniversary Exhibition, 1 Torrens Road, Mitcham, SA, 1-22 March 2024.
2023
• CanAssist Southern Highlands Botanical Art & Illustration Prize, Botanical Art Society of Australia and Can|Assist Southern Highlands, Retford Park, Bowral, NSW, 3-29 October, 2023.
•Flora: The Art and Science of the Plant, Botanical Art Society of Australia Exhibition, Holmes à Court Gallery, West Perth, WA, 2 Sept – 14 October, 2023.
• WAMA Art Prize Exhibition of Finalists, Ararat Gallery TAMA, Ararat, Vic, 19 August – 19 November, 2023.
• Botanical Art Society of Australia Exhibition at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Carlton Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 29 March – 2 April, 2023.
2022
• Poetry of the Earth, Fleurieu Arthouse, McLaren Vale, SA, 8 October – 20 November, 2022.
• The Art of Botanical Illustration 16th Biennial Exhibition, Domain House, Melbourne, 16 September – 2 October, 2022.
• Gallery M Contemporary Art Prize, Marion Cultural Centre, Marion, SA, 5 – 28 August, 2022.
• Can|Assist Southern Highlands Botanical Art and Illustration Prize, Botanical Art Society of Australia and Can|Assist Southern Highlands, Retford Park, Bowral, NSW, 16 July – 14 August, 2022.
• Botanical Art Society of Australia Exhibition at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Carlton Exhibition Building, Melbourne, 30 March – 3 April, 2022.
2021
•Flora: The Art and Science of the Plant, Botanical Art Society of Australia Exhibition, Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart, 26 October – 6 November, 2021 [3 drawings exhibited].
Collections with my work
• Royal Institution Australia, Adelaide.
• Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide.
• Anatomy Museum, Flinders University.
• National Herbarium of Victoria, Melbourne.
Published drawings
• Bountiful Botanicals: Indigenous uses of Australian native plants, The Botanical Art Society of Australia Inc, 2025, pp. 54-55, ISBN 9780646711454.
• WAMA Art Prize Works on Paper 2023, WAMA Foundation LTD, 2023, pp. 88-89, ISBN 9780992587529.
• Flora of Australia: A Botanical Art Worldwide Exhibition linking people with plants through botanical art, The Botanical Art Society of Australia Inc, 2018, pp. 62-63.
• Floribunda, drawings by Judy Morris with poems by Ian Gibbins, Mt Barker, SA, 2015, 32 pages, ISBN 9780646937892.
• Cover illustrations for Ian Gibbins’ poetry collection Urban Biology, Friendly Street Poets and Wakefield Press, Norwood/Kent Town, SA, 2012, ISBN 9781743050996.