Morales-Lee was taught by the painter John Virtue and graduated alongside friend and peer Antony Micallef. During the last few years, he has exhibited in a number of shows, selling work to well known collectors and exhibited alongside artists such as Antony Gormley, Jeremy Deller, Gavin Turk, Sarah Maple, Anthony Lister, Shepard Fairey, Vhils, FAILE and many more. He also recently won the Galerie Heimat & NG Art Creative Residency Art Prize 2021 judged by Kate Bryan and Laura Gascoigne and appeared on Sky Arts, Portrait Artist of the Year in 2020

 

In 2022 he will be shown within the online exhibition ‘The Sequested Prize’ and has also been shortlisted for the Derwent Art Prize

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The work deals with the idea of identity and belonging. From being fostered at the age of three, Patrick was constantly aware of his surroundings and the need to fit in growing up. Looking back, he recognises those feelings as universal and the work looks to explore the ‘human condition’, specifically what makes people do what they do to have a sense of belonging – from the everyday to the extreme