Morris has made a significant contribution to the development of contemporary art in the UK through her commitment to supporting emerging artists and through the organisation of EASTinternational, an annual open submission exhibition that took place in Norwich from 1991–2009.
Here she organised a programme of exhibitions including Towards Another Picture with Andrew Brighton, Terry Atkinson's First World War Pictures (both 1977), Gerhard Richter’s 48 Portraits (1978), René Magritte Photography and Films and Nigel Henderson's Photographs of Bethnal Green 1949–1952 (both 1978).
[5] In 1985 she interviewed DDR artists who spent 1939–1945 in London and edited Third Text 15: British Art and Immigration 1870-1990.
This major exhibition, which explored the socialist elements of Picasso and his work, was the culmination of 30 years of research by Morris.
[8] Two different selectors were invited each year, and included Konrad Fischer, Richard Long, Lawrence Weiner, Marian Goodman, Peter Doig, Jeremy Deller, Nicholas Logsdail and Neo Rauch among others.
Exhibiting artists have included several Turner Prize nominees and winners whose work first came to prominence through the exhibition including Martin Creed, Barbara Walker, Tomoko Takahashi, as well as many artists who have gone on to have significant reputations within contemporary art such as Rose Wylie, Phyllida Barlow and Lucy McKenzie.