Sculptor and teacher, born in Malvern, Worcestershire, married to the sculptor Lucy Kinsella. He began painting from the early 1960s, enrolling on the pre-diploma (foundation) course at Birmingham College of Art in 1965, tutors including Reg Ashton and the sculptor Don Prince. Did his diploma there, tutors including John Walker and Denis Bowen, staying until 1969. Morris then did a teacher training course at Hornsey College of Art, 1969–70. During his studies Morris gradually inclined towards three-dimensional works and became a sculpture technician at Coventry Polytechnic, 1970–2, where the fine art department included Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin and David Bainbridge, conceptual artists, core members of Art & Language. Over the years Morris created diverse sculptures in many materials, while continuing to believe that there had to be “a conceptual basis to things,” as he explained in Colin Rhodes’s 1999 monograph on him.