About

Morgan Allender is a contemporary painter based in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. Profiled by Vogue Living Magazine as “one of today’s brightest crop of design and art talent", she works primarily within a framework of large-scale, gestural paintings.

Her work reflects an ongoing exploration of the parallels between the materiality of oil paint and the chaotic elements of the natural world. Drawing on a multitude of sources, including botanical symbolism, ecology, weather systems, horticulture, and the landscape genre, she is most interested in the cultural interactions between people, plants and the greater landscape.

Since graduating from Adelaide Central School of Art with Honours in 2005, Morgan has exhibited widely throughout Australia, choosing to exhibit online in recent years to meet a growing international audience. Her paintings are held in private collections throughout Australia, the USA, the UK, Italy and Japan.

To read more, a favourite interview Q&A about the parallels between gardening and painting in Morgan’s practise is on the wonderful US online journal Plinth et al, and can be visited here.