Ingrid Morley

Born Johannesburg, South Africa

Lives & Works Oberon (Gundungurra)

“Ingrid Morley’s sculpture is a curious mix of the primitive, playful and sensuous. Human and animal forms predominate. Her work grows out of her South African childhood, the study of veterinary science in London and her love of Australian landscape.

In recent years, especially after an important stay in France in 2003 and China in 2006, she has been exploring ever new ways of making sculpture, assembling found objects and making maquettes out of paper or card for fabricating in stainless steel or copper.

She hasn’t abandoned clay, bronze and fibreglass, but she seeks to match her growing repertoire of forms and ideas for sculpture with the most telling and memorable of means. Her monumental bronze Stations of the Cross in Rookwood Cemetery and various contributions to ‘Sculpture by the Sea’ since reveal her to be one of the liveliest and most interesting of a newer generation of figurative sculptors working in Sydney.” - Hendrik Kolenberg, Artist and Curator

Morley lives on the land; her home is surrounded by the skeletons of heavy machinery, which she dissects and reforms into her sculptures.

She has exhibited extensively over the past 25 years and been a finalist in numerous awards, including the Alice Prize (2020), Western Sydney University Sculpture Award (2021), Muswellbrook Art Prize (2020), North Sydney Art Prize (2019), and was was the recipient of the highly coveted Sculpture for Clyde award in 2024.

Her work is held in prominent collections including the Nock Art Foundation, HK, China, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Oppenheimer Collection, South Africa and the Mid-Western Regional Council’s Public Art Collection, Mudgee as well as private collections in Australia and internationally.