Altered states

Flocking X’s

Peter Morgan

Flocking X’s – A visual encounter. I was wondering about in Arenzano in Northen Italy, not really looking for anything, but I found these empty billboards, rusted, distressed and ravaged by time with beautiful bright blue X’s. I was drawn to their simplicity their aesthetic beauty. So I made this booklet – a meditation on, and in praise of the unintentional, the sheer beauty and purity of just looking. Something to reflect on, something to think about. Seeing something in nothing, or was it nothing in something. Just flocking X’s

24pp, 200 x 200mm, hand – sewn, edition 25 signed and numbered November 2025

Fifty States

The Toddler in Chief vs The Brain Dead Head
Peter Morgan

Fifty states of mind across a divided America. Published to coincide with the 2020 American presidential election, the book consists of three double page spreads scattered with red and blue words: OUTRAGE, FURY, DISBELIEF, FEAR, LOATHING etc. This book will make you laugh or cry.

Priced to reflect the capitalist dream: 1 — 14, €10, 15 — 30, €20, 31 – 50 €30 Profits will fund a future publication about the environmental catastrophe.

8pp, 200 x 200mm, hand – sewn, Edition of 50 signed and numbered.
3rd November 2020

Loose Buttons

Peter Morgan

Photographs of disparate objects, both local and exotic, unexpected scenes, familiar items newly juxtaposed, these loose buttons are grounded, clarified—humorous, anecdotal and dreamy—evoked in short texts beneath each picture. With a puff of smoke we could all be walking on air.

28pp, laser printed photographs with text, 190 x 235, stapled, edition of 39. November 2018

SOLD OUT

Volume 2  – A new expanded edition to be released in 2026 

One Day Closer To Dying

Peter Morgan

I was travelling in Myanmar, visiting the Shwedagon Pagoda at sunset, which seemed like the perfect moment …

32pp, 170 x 200mm, bound with brass screws, September 2017.  SOLD OUT

Still available: Special large format edition of 9, signed and numbered, 2 in presentation folders, cloth bound with ribbon ties 340 x 420mm, €370 each.

Plus 7 copies in simple envelopes 320 x 400mm, €175 each

Everything is Here

Peter Morgan

We were travelling in the Alpujarras in Southern Spain, and read about a Tibetan monastery, which, as the guide books said, would give us the impression of having fallen through a black hole into South-East Asia.

32pp, 220 x 200mm, bound with brass screws September 2017.

I AM

Peter Morgan

The inadvertent art and wilful defacing of posters from the 2016 election in Ireland. Fifteen colour photographs and a short text on the politicians’ ultimate nightmare.

16 pp, 150x150mm, stapled, edition of 101. March 2016

The Alchemist

Peter Morgan

A tinsmith in southern Morocco transformed a paint tin into a bucket. I melted and poured the lead and transmuted the tip into gold. Unlike the other book of the same title, this one has not been translated into 71 languages.

Concertina book, 95 x 116mm, inkjet print on Munken pure, with applied gold leaf. Edition of 21. Signed and numbered. November 2012

Make Something

Peter Morgan

The idea is to make something, but the reality is always filled with false starts, plans, calculations, sketches and a lot of wasted time. On the table in my work space a large sheet of paper has slowly been filled with these marks. I cut the large sheet into smaller sheets and re-formed it as a book. Whether or not this has got anything to do with art you will have to ask John Baldessari.

10pp 226 x 204mm. Laser print. Edition of one.  December 2011

Drift

Peter Morgan

Drift, the only form of subversion that doesn’t reinforce the status quo.

4pp, 210 x 295 pamphlet, 3 images and statement. Edition of 101. 2007