Morrison Polkinghorne was born in Tasmania and at seven he moved to Alice Springs. For 30 years he called Sydney home while running his decorative arts business Passementeries. There, he was a master tassel maker, designing and creating embellishments for historic and prestige houses and leading interior designers.

Morrison was lauded in Belle magazine as one of the year’s 10 Top Designers in Australia 1996, plus magazine features of his inner-city Sydney warehouse home in Country Living and Vogue Living magazines.

Morrison designed and photographed The Burma Cookbook, awarded Best Asian cookbook of the year at World Gourmand in Yentai, China (2015).

In Battambang Cambodia he owned and managed Bric-a-Brac, an award-winning boutique hotel, atelier and art shop. His property was twice awarded Top Boutique Hotel in Cambodia in Soverin magazine, among others. While in Cambodia, he mastered new art forms and techniques inspired by ancient Khmer history, ecology and nature, and local culture.

Morrison now resides in a century old re- purposed brick church in far northwest Victoria, bordering South Australia in the southern Mallee, gateway to the Outback.

As a weaver, his need to count has led to a love of counting. This has created numbered

artworks from paintings as-well as video.