Margaret Morris was born at 28 Collingham Place, Kensington, London, England on 10 March 1891. Soon after her birth she moved with her parents to France where she lived for the next five years. She had little formal education and at the age of eight joined the Ben Greet Shakespeare Company as a child actress. She also began taking lessons in classical ballet. From 1907 she was ingénue principal dancer with Frank Benson's Shakespearean company. By 1910 she had begun training dancers. She also started working as a choreographer and about this time designed the costumes and decor for Marie Brema's production of Gluck's Orpheus at the Savoy Theatre in London.

In 1912, with the financial backing of the writer John Galsworthy, she founded a dance school in St Martin's Lane, London and formed her first touring company, Margaret Morris and her Dancing Children. In the 1920s she developed an interest in the health-giving and remedial applications of dance and gave lectures on the subject. She also established a number of Margaret Morris Movement training centres in Britain and France for teaching the remedial value of dance and movement

In 1913 she met the Scottish painter and sculptor John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961). The couple subsequently worked together on art and dance projects, including the design of costumes and sets for Morris's dance productions. Morris was Fergusson's model and his muse, and he encouraged her to paint. He may also have given her lessons in painting as there is evident influence of his work on her paintings both in the composition and use of colour.

After living in France for a number of years Morris and Fergusson returned to Scotland in 1939 and in 1940 they established the New Art Club, which subsequently became the New Scottish Group. Also, that year Morris established the Celtic Ballet Club which in 1960 became the Scottish National Ballet.

Morris died in Glasgow on 29 February 1980. Since her death a number of exhibitions of her artwork have been held including at the Cyril Gerber Fine Art Gallery in Glasgow in 1984 and at the Third Eye Centre in Glasgow in 1985.

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