He said witnessing its deindustrialisation during the 70s and 80s, where factories disappeared, sites were abandoned and landscapes left unoccupied informed his work.
Across the exhibition are scenes that are often passed through rather than visited as destinations. Many are depicted at night, illuminated by streetlights or the glow from nearby buildings.
“These are the places I know,” Morris said. “Things look so different at night, it’s a different experience and I like the quietness, when things look more uncanny.”
From his nocturnal photographs, he painted a series of five parked post office vans.
One of the featured works, A Minor Place (2016), shows stacks of crates positioned beneath a motorway flyover against a dark sky.