Morrison title each of his paintings based on the total of lotus embossed stamps on each piece, and includes the exact number as part of his artist’s signature.
His lotus works may easily consist of a minimum of 10,000 lotus stalk impressions, and more. incorporating these elements of counting into the lotus art. The result looks a bit like the bespoke marks of an haute couturier’s pattern, which again is fitting as Morrison began my career designing and sewing clothes in Australia and selling them at local markets.
Here is a time line of his lotus art.
2016
unknown buyer
May 2017
lotus ink
read more bout the ink
1 August 2017
first signing
580
The first work that I had made, signed and numbered. Prior to this I was counting the impression, but I was not signing the counts.
unknown buyer.
October 2017
exhibition
AMANSARA – Morrisons first exhibition
Morrison’s exhibition at Amansara Seam Reap was in the former residence of HRH King Norodom Sihanouk. It consisted of a total of 63,213 lotus marks.
In the library hangs a triptych of three vertical paintings. Each portrays two vertical lines of varying depths of darkness graduating from the base to the top, thus reflecting how a lotus flower grows. Each stamp is unique, as the paper absorbs and tones of each lotus marking. Fittingly, with each line complementing the next, the painting emerges like a lotus flowers from which it was made.
A fourth piece, hanging separately, reflects the Sangkae river flowing past my home in Battambang. It is my impression of its waters flowing into the Tonlé Sap. What also inspires me are the classic Khmer songs written about the river.
13 April 2019
400,000 lotus count
400,000 lotus impressions
Three river delta #5 with 5228
sold
May – June 2019
exhibition
Serindia Gallery Bangkok
148913 lotus impressions
11 November 2019
450,000 lotus count
450,000 lotus impressions
Three Trees
31 December 2019
500,000 lotus count
reached a total of half a million lotus impressions, 500,000
A single painting entitled Decade with 5724 lotus impressions
sold
February - April 2020
exhibition
Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra
132,383 impressions
October 2020
award
Winner
First, International artist award.
Art For Life, Chicago
26 January 2021
555,555 lotus count
555,555
I made a single painting of 5 lotus impressions
March 2021
Left Cambodia and moved back to Australia
Total count, 578,217
December, 2021
exhibition
Paris
Galerie Lee
1 December 2022
600,000 lotus count
600,000
I made a cube, of 249 lotus impressions
16 August 2023
After three weeks in Thailand and Cambodia I reached a total accumulative count of 650,202 lotus impressions.
My goal of 5,000,005 lotus impression update. ETA 119 year’s
17 September 2023
lotus count
650,203
650,204
650,205
650,206
with a large lotus ink stone, four works made at Shoulder To Shoulder, Pinnaroo SA
December 2025
rope book
Release of ROPE Twists & Turns
an artists colouring book
25 April 2026
elliott award
Recipient of the 2025 Elliott Award for outstanding contributions to arts and culture in the Mallee region, specifically highlighting his work in arts-based mental health initiatives across rural border communities.
691,552
4 July 2026
700,000 lotus count
At 4:45pm in Siem Reap on July 4, I reached seven hundred thousand lotus impressions.
35th row from top, 22 impressions from the right.
If you look under this impression you will see 700,000 written in pencil.
Monsoon Pii
with 4149 lotus impressions
lotus ink on paper
This the work I completed this year , if I keep at my current rate It will take me 97 years to reach my goal of 5,00,005 lotus impressions.
August 2026
goal
With my return from Cambodia, I don’t think I will have the chance to paint again, so with the work I completed this year , if I keep at my current rate It will take me 97 years to reach my goal of 5,00,005 lotus impressions.
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