Jackie Morris

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Jackie Morris
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Birmingham, England, UK
OccupationIllustrator, writer
NationalityBritish
Alma mater Bath Academy of Art
Genre Children's

Jackie Morris (born 1961) is a British writer and illustrator. She was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 2016 and won it in 2019 [1] for her illustration of The Lost Words, voted the most beautiful book of 2016 by UK booksellers. [2] She is a recipient of the Tir na n-Og Award for children's book Seal Children.

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Life

Morris was born in Birmingham in 1961. Her family moved to Evesham when she was four. As a child she was told that she couldn't be an artist, but despite this she learned to paint. Morris went to High school at Prince Henry's High School in Evesham and afterward the Bath Academy of Art. [3] [4]

On leaving college she found work in editorial, illustrating magazines like Radio Times, New Statesman, New Society and Country Living. She worked for years illustrating books and in 2016, she was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal for Something About a Bear. The book includes her water colours of different types of bear.

She lives in a small house by the sea in Wales, painting and writing.

Career

The Lost Words is a book of "spells" by Robert Macfarlane with illustrations by Morris. The book has clues to words like acorn , blackberry and conker . The book was said[ by whom? ] to be inspired by 21st-century editions of the Oxford Junior Dictionary in which some words like kingfisher associated with nature were omitted in order to include technical terms like attachment , broadband and chatroom . [5] [6] In 2017, Laurence Rose organised a protest letter to the dictionary and it was signed by Margaret Atwood, Sara Maitland, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Macfarlane, and Morris. Much debate ensued but the creative outcome was an idea for joint work by McFarlane and Morris. [5] This book was voted the most beautiful book by UK booksellers in 2016. [2]

An exhibition of The Lost Words was held at Compton Verney in 2017, featuring immersive floor to ceiling graphics of the poems and illustrations in the book. [7] The exhibition subsequently toured Britain, hosted by the Foundling Museum in London, Inverleith House in Edinburgh, Royal Albert Museum in Exeter, [8] and the North York Moors National Park’s art gallery in Danby. [9]

A Welsh language version of The Lost Words 'Geiriau Diflanedig' was published by Graffeg in 2019 [10] with author Mererid Hopwood adapting Macfarlane's acrostic spell-poems within Morris' illustrations.

An audiobook of The Lost Words has been narrated by Guy Garvey, Edith Bowman, Benjamin Zephaniah, and Cerys Matthews, [11] with ambient sound recordings Chris Watson. [12]

Works

As author and illustrator
As illustrator
Notable artwork

Awards and recognitions

Awards
Shortlisted

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  2. 1 2 3 Kean, Danuta (21 November 2017). "Doctor's diary This is Going to Hurt wins public vote for book of the year". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "JACKIE MORRIS | Children's Book Author and illustrator". brightstarbedtimestories.com. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Biography". www.jackiemorris.co.uk. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Norbury, Katharine (2 October 2017). "The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris review – sumptuous". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Flood, Alison (13 January 2015). "Oxford Junior Dictionary's replacement of 'natural' words with 21st-century terms sparks outcry". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "The Lost Words - Past Exhibition". Compton Verney. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  8. ↑ "The Lost Words". Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter. Archived from the original on 27 February 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  9. ↑ admin (16 January 2019). "National Park gallery becomes only Northern England venue to host The Lost Words exhibition". The Kirkbymoorside Town Blog. Archived from the original on 27 February 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
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  12. ↑ Morris, Jackie (25 March 2020). "Yesterday". Jackie Morris. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
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