Dr. Morgan Black Wood holds a BA, MFAAH and practice-based PhD in Fine Art from the University of Dundee, and won the Sandra McNeilance Prize for Drawing and Painting, 2020. Field of study is the non-binary body and physiognomy in art, society and culture. A multi-disciplinary artist, work encompasses video, performance, spoken word, comix, music and writing. Themes focus on transgression, subversion, the flattening of high/low dichotomies, and tend to critique any hegemonic or binary position or system of taxonomy, and these were key points in the 2025 doctoral thesis, ‘The Biggest Reveal: A practice-based enquiry into representations of explicit non-binary bodies in contemporary art’.
Recent commissioned works include the short film Solstice (2021), with Eston Arts in Middlesbrough; Welcome! (2022), a series of three comics promoting international transgender rights with Shaper/Caper, Dundee; and forthcoming (2025) illustrations for the epic Glaswegian poem ‘A Glesga Pieman Met a Flyman’.
Morgan Black continues to perform at the Dundee Fringe Festival with solo cabaret shows, and create short films on diverse themes and narratives. Written work has been published in the anthology Making Kin by Cthulhu Books/Institute for Postnatural Studies (2023), Metachrosis literary magazine (2023, 2025) and in The Poetry Experiment Anthology (2024).
