A native of Manchester, Jamaica, Morrison was sketching from the time she was a child. She began training as an artist at McMaster University in Canada, graduating in 1976. In the mid-1980s she studied for her MFA at Howard University in Washington, DC, during which time she spent a year in Kenya. She divided her time between the United States and Jamaica before returning home for good in 1995; she continues to travel for residencies. She has taught at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts since 1988.
