Mali Morris RA (born 1945, North Wales) is a British abstract painter known for her luminous colour and her exploration of layering, transparency and pictorial space. Her paintings bring together vibrant shapes and gestural marks, creating complex relationships between colour, light and depth. She studied fine art at Newcastle University from 1963 to 1968 and completed postgraduate studies at the University of Reading in 1970.
Morris’s early major exhibitions included the Serpentine Summer Show in 1977 and a solo exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, in 1979. She has since exhibited extensively in Britain and internationally. Alongside her studio practice, she has had a substantial teaching career, serving as Senior Lecturer in Painting at Chelsea College of Art from 1991 to 2005. A founder member of the artists’ organisation A.P.T. in Deptford, London, she was elected a Royal Academician in 2010.