There is a sense of foreboding in an image by Heather and Ivan Morison. The roses in a vase are beautiful, but what about the dead wood pigeons? It's hard to escape the morbid sense that the flowers will wilt and the birds decay.
Peter Chapman, Art: Private View, The Independent, 17 September 2005

Conflating an art historical genre with modern technology, a series of large, luscious photographs revisit 17th-century Dutch still-life painting. Cut flowers are almost bursting with pulchritude and the flesh of a wood pigeon, a fish and a pig's head are woozy with gaminess. Here the artists are credited as Mr & Mrs Ivan Morison, adopting the outmoded patriarchal system of nomenclature to match the still-life genre. Their apparent schizophrenia might seem a tongue-in-cheek parody, but the Morisons are emphatic that they are not adopting personas or drawing caricatures of types. It is more a case of teasing out and exaggerating certain propensities in themselves
Sally O'Reilly, Heather & Ivan Morison, Frieze, March 2006

Still Life series
2004

Selected examples:

Flowers with swine
2004
C type print
80 x 80 cm

Flowers with fish (red detail)
2004
C type print
90 x 90 cm

Flowers with wood pigeons
2004
C type print
80 x 80 cm

Flowers with swine (pink detail)
2004
C type print
90 x 90 cm

16 Spanjaard Straat
2004
C type print
30 x 30 cm

16 Spanjaard Straat
2004
C type print
30 x 30 cm