Isaiah Morris is a visual artist and (almost) theologian residing in Oxford, U.K.
The spiritual undercurrents of perception, the history of religious and artistic renewals, and the imagination’s formation occupies much of his thought. He pursues this in three modalities: Image, Word, and People. (And when not, he’s probably making Creme Brûlée.)
Currently, Isaiah is training for the Anglican Priesthood at Wycliffe Hall and pursuing a DPhil (PhD) in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Oxford. His research explores the history of the Charismatic Renewal within the Catholic tradition of the Church of England. He holds a Master’s in Theology and the Arts from King’s College, London (awarded the Relton Prize in Christian Doctrine).
He is an Emering Leader with the Centre for Cultural Witness and a Bill Snelson Young Ecumenist. His writing has appeared in Inkwell (Christianity Today), Seen&Unseen, Art+Christianity, and the Australasian Pentecostal Studies Journal. Lately, he’s been writing a book on a theology of LED screens.
Isaiah has exhibited and performed live visuals and video art worldwide—Australia, North America, Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom—often in public and non-traditional spaces. He is concerned with how different environments affect the viewer's perception of what is real and what is not, blurring the lines between the tangible and the ethereal.
His collaborators include: New Balance, Red Bull AU, Melbourne Music Week, Piknic Electronica, Focus Festival (UK), Renaissance Conference (UK), Reality Church San Francisco, and Sunday Screens. Isaiah’s live visuals have cast silhouettes on the likes of Peggy Gou, Carl Cox, Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, Kate Ceberano, Chase and Status, Masego, Kaiit, Ben Klock, Tobiahs, and Rival Consoles.
Curatorially, in 2019, Isaiah launched New Kids, hosting over 40 music events to platform emerging artists and provide industry support. Similarly, he founded the No Vacancy Window to create exhibiting opportunities for video and motion-based artists.
Isaiah speaks regularly on the intersection between art, faith, and culture. You can read his inconsistent meanderings at (re)figure.
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The spiritual undercurrents of perception, the history of religious and artistic renewals, and the imagination’s formation occupies much of his thought. He pursues this in three modalities: Image, Word, and People. (And when not, he’s probably making Creme Brûlée.)
Currently, Isaiah is training for the Anglican Priesthood at Wycliffe Hall and pursuing a DPhil (PhD) in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Oxford. His research explores the history of the Charismatic Renewal within the Catholic tradition of the Church of England. He holds a Master’s in Theology and the Arts from King’s College, London (awarded the Relton Prize in Christian Doctrine).
He is an Emering Leader with the Centre for Cultural Witness and a Bill Snelson Young Ecumenist. His writing has appeared in Inkwell (Christianity Today), Seen&Unseen, Art+Christianity, and the Australasian Pentecostal Studies Journal. Lately, he’s been writing a book on a theology of LED screens.
Isaiah has exhibited and performed live visuals and video art worldwide—Australia, North America, Japan, Korea, and the United Kingdom—often in public and non-traditional spaces. He is concerned with how different environments affect the viewer's perception of what is real and what is not, blurring the lines between the tangible and the ethereal.
His collaborators include: New Balance, Red Bull AU, Melbourne Music Week, Piknic Electronica, Focus Festival (UK), Renaissance Conference (UK), Reality Church San Francisco, and Sunday Screens. Isaiah’s live visuals have cast silhouettes on the likes of Peggy Gou, Carl Cox, Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, Kate Ceberano, Chase and Status, Masego, Kaiit, Ben Klock, Tobiahs, and Rival Consoles.
Curatorially, in 2019, Isaiah launched New Kids, hosting over 40 music events to platform emerging artists and provide industry support. Similarly, he founded the No Vacancy Window to create exhibiting opportunities for video and motion-based artists.
Isaiah speaks regularly on the intersection between art, faith, and culture. You can read his inconsistent meanderings at (re)figure.
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Image
A translation of audible encounters into visual landscapes through Projection Mapping, VJing, & Light-based installations.
Often seen at music festivals, cyberspace, & bespoke events.
Collaborators Include: Star Wars, Red Bull AU, Vogue AU, New Balance, Sony AU, Untitled Group, Piknic Électronic, Melbourne Music Week, The Operatives, Strawberry Fields Festival, & Foreign Echo.
Experimental Projects
An attempt to push the intersection of digital euphoria and human connection.
Word
A trial in articulating with theological language the sub-cultures I find myself within: New Media Art, Clubbing, and the Church.
Written
London’s Newest Theologian: the Real Housewives of Clapton — Seen&Unseen (May ‘25)
The Spirit Poured Out on Banality? Toward a Public Visual Theology of Australian Pentecostal Church Architecture — Society for Pentecostal Studies (March ‘25)
What Happens After the Christian Art’s Conference? — Ekstasis (February ‘25)
The Rave: A Last Bastion of Hope? — Seen&Unseen (January ‘25)
Ecumenism, Rome, and Friendship — Churches Together England (September ‘24)
The Creational Gaze: Marina Abramovic and Galatians 5 — The Journal for Interdisciplinary Theology (March ’24)
Reviews
Spirit and Method by Edwin Rodriguez-Gungor — Australasian Pentecostal Studies Journal (Vol. 26, 2025)
Makers By Nature by Bruce Herman — Art and Christianity (Issue 112, Summer 2025)
I write somewhat regularly over at
(re)figure
Spoken
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (@10:15)
— Premier Christian Radio (January ‘25):
Transcript
Prophesy Like a Child — King’s College, London (January ‘25)
Life Immersed in Art — Future History Podcast (December ‘23)
Press
New Balance Grey Day —
Sneaker Freaker (May ‘23)
Get to Know Square Up Artists —
Acclaim Magazine (May ‘21)
Melbourne Artists Team Up During Lockdown — Acclaim Magazine (’20)
People
Curating spaces for human connection, and friendships that become collaborators.
New Kids (2019)
80+ Local Melbourne Artists; 2 international acts; 37 consecutive weeks.
@Newkids.melb was created to bridge-the-gap between genres, scenes, communities and humans of Melbourne. Where collaboration occurs, artistic ingenuity emerges. From Indie-Rock, to techno, ProtoMoro jamming for 2 hours, to helping @poly.connection throw their first event, this was a place to meet new friends and re-kindle old; an invitation to communicate across sounds.
No Vacancy Window (2017-18)
The No Vacancy Window is an unconventional experimental video site.
Emerging artists are invited to create a site-specific work that challenges the notion of what 'video' is. Working within physical constraints, how far an artist can push the space, is a testament to their ability as an individual. All the while providing the audience with a looking glass into the future of Melbourne Artists, and their ideas.
The No Vacancy Window invites emerging artists to create a site-specific work encapsulating and translating Melbourne's political, social and environmental landscape, into a video based work.
