April Morris is a visual artist and arts educator who lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She is a multi-disciplined artist who actively engages in psychogeographic walks to challenge her perspective of the city she lives in. April wanders the urban landscape by crossing invisible boundaries, breaking unwritten pedestrian laws, and exploring hidden alleyways. While walking, she is attentive to the various urban elements that influence the way she moves through the cityscape. Utility markings, pylons and survey markers cause her to stop and pause. In these moments of pause, April questions how the built environment influences communities on a physical and emotional level.

 April is mostly drawn to liminal spaces such as construction sites, vacant lots and condemned buildings. To April, these transitional spaces are an access point to re-imagine and contemplate possible futures. Like graffiti, April’s artwork attempts to allude to the subtext of the city. Her work expresses visual narratives through multi-layered images of street signage, neon spray paint and pylons as an attempt to subvert their meanings. April aims to repurpose these visual cues of caution and danger as a reminder of pause and reflection.

April holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts Honours degree, Bachelors of Education, and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor.