Robert Morris is a multi-disciplinary artist, whose current inquiry responds to oil-survey photographs found during his September 2023 Amauliq residency in Tuktoyaktuk NT. His works on softwood panels and on laser-cut plywood containers, combines found photographs, with laser-engraved technical and cartographic drawings, topographic maps and photographs printed on rice paper, collaged with encaustic medium, and water colour and photo pigment hand-tinting.   Robert's relationship with his work, informed by decades of crafting wood and fabric boats, with hand tools, steam and artificial sinew, is profoundly physical, and deeply engaged with material qualities and relationships.   A former photographer in the Canadian Armed Forces, Robert currently teaches art, photograph, animation and woodworking at a high school, and maintains a studio at Maker Labs in Vancouver. A graduate of University of Concordia, Simon Fraser University, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and OCAD, Robert has worked at numerous museums galleries and historic sites.  In his business, Brewery Creek Small Boat Shop, he has taught traditional arctic qajaq (kayak) building for thirty years across North America and in Taiwan. He was invited to Kugaaruk, Nunavut for three summers to work with elders, where he learned to build Netsilingmeot qajaq. He is the author of Building Skin on Frame Boats, featured in the NFB documentary Caribou Kayak and was a founding co-coordinator of Gallery Gachet.