About, BIO & CV

Since finishing her BFA (Hons) National Art School (2010), Murray has worked predominantly in an installation-based cross-disciplinary arts practice, continuing her explorations of place and identity. Her attention to form, site and materials relate to, and are often a reaction against, her previous thirty-year career as a practising architect.

Beyond a form’s materiality or permanence, she is interested in its ability to communicate ideas. Her past work negotiates the thorny topics on the news: (un) natural environments, human rights, climate change, unsustainable energy, continues in collaboration with Mandy Burgess. Most recently Murray has been working on site-specific wall constructions and linoleum printing. While these have departed from previously political overtones and restricted colour palette of red and black, they are executed with characteristic rigour. Forms are minimal, composed from horizontal and vertical stripes creating new colour combinations.

Selected Exhibitions - Solo

2021 Blue//Blue//Black//Black//Blue Articulate Project Space Leichhardt
Red//Red//Blue//Blue//Red. Factory 49 Marrickville
2020 RedRed BlackBlack BlackBlack Blue Five Walls Footscray Melbourne
#fuelled SLOT Window Space Waterloo
Every Time the Sun Comes Up AIRspace Projects Marrickville
Tipping Point Factory 49 Marrickville, Murray and Burgess
2019 Black Vertical and Red Horizontal Factory 49 Marrickville
SORT IT OUT, collaboration with Burgess Factory49 Marrickville
2018  #hazelwood #yallourn Factory 49 Marrickville
A-four to A-zero Factory 49 Marrickville
2017   Cove Cliffs and Creeks Willoughby Council Foyer
2016   homesweethome - collaboration with Mandy Burgess, Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown
2015    Extreme Fire Warning, Montsalvat Melbourne
2013    Once, Jean Bellette Gallery, Hill End
2012    Nurture, Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby

Commissioned Work
2020   Project Ugly InnerWest Council and Look Print Leichhardt
2018   Project Ugly InnerWest Council and Look Print Leichhardt
2017   Art for the Planet Ambush Gallery, Darling Quarter
2017  Willoughby City Council Foyer WVAB
           Art on the Greenway, Inner West Council, in collaboration with Mandy Burgess
2016   Art on The GreenWay as part of LOST by Leichhardt Council                                                                                    
2013   Middle Head: 33 deg 50’ S, 151 deg 14’ E, Mosman Art Gallery Cementa13 Contemporary Arts Festival, Kandos (AIT)

Selected Residencies

2019    BigCi Bilpin
2019    Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, RPA Camperdown
2017    Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, RPA Camperdown
2016    RPA Hospital
2015    BigCi Bilpin
2014    Chris O'Brien Lifehouse, RPA
2014    NANA Contemporary Art Newcastle
2013    Hill End Bathurst Regional Gallery
2013    Ambush Gallery, Waterloo

Education
2010    Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons), National Art School
1976     Bachelor of Architecture (Hons), University of NSW

Collaborations
2015-current  Collaboration Murray and Burgess
2012-15 Artists in Transit Murray and Langley

Selected recent prizes and awards
2020
contour556 Canberra collaboration Murray and Burgess
Fishers Ghost Art Prize Campbelltown Arts Centre

2019
Selected Fishers Ghost Art Prize Campbelltown Art Centre
Selected Hidden Sculpture Walk collaboration with Mandy Burgess
Selected Sculpture at Scenic World
Selected North Sydney Art Prize

2018 
Selected Grace Cossington Smith Art Award
Selected Blacktown City Art Prize
Finalist Marie Ellis prize for Drawing
Finalist Swan Hill Print and Drawing Prize
Finalist Wyndham Art Prize
Finalist Sculpture at Scenic World collaboration with Mandy Burgess
Finalist Sculpture Other Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Katoomba
2017
Finalist - North Sydney Art Prize - The Coal Loader Balls Head, solo and collaboration with Mandy Burgess
Finalist - Harbour Sculpture Hunters Hill, solo and collaboration with Mandy Burgess
Finalist - Home Grown: The Urban Landscape Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial  
2016
Finalist - Sculpture in the Vineyards Wollombi
Finalist - Blacktown Art Prize
Finalist - Meroogal Womens Art Prize, collaboration with Mandy Burgess
Won - Emerging Artist Prize Sculpture at Sawmillers, McMahons Point
Finalist - Sculpture at Killalea Shell Harbour - collaboration with Mandy Burgess
Finalist - Sculpture on the Greens, Wyong
Highly Commended - Sculpture Walk Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden

2015       
Highly Commended - Blacktown City Art Prize Finalist –Sculpture In the Vineyards Wollombi
Finalist- Fishers Ghost Art Prize Campbelltown Art Centre
Finalist –Hidden Rookwood Cemetery Sculpture Walk
Finalist – North Sydney Art Prize
Finalist – Harbour Sculpture Woolwich
Highly Commended – Sculpture on the Greens Wyong

2014      
Finalist – Blacktown City Art Prize
Finalist – Chippendale New World Art Prize
Finalist – Harbour Sculpture, Woolwich
Finalist – Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 
Finalist – Sculpture at Sawmillers, McMahons Point

2013       
Winner – Blacktown City Art Prize, Environmental Art Prize
Highly Commended – Harbour Sculpture, Woolwich
Highly Commended – Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts
Finalist – Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Art Centre
Finalist – Harbour Sculpture, Woolwich
Finalist – Hunters Hill Art Prize
Finalist – In Situ 2013: Mosman Festival of Sculpture and Installation
Finalist – North Sydney Art Prize, Coal Loader Site
Finalist – Sculptures in the Vineyards, Wollombi
Finalist – Sculptures on the Greens, Wyong
Finalist – Willoughby Art Prize

2012    
Winner – Blacktown City Art Prize, Works on Paper
Winner – Sculptures in the Gaol, Trial Bay
Finalist – Blacktown City Art Prize, Sculpture Prize
Finalist – Marrickville Contemporary Art Prize, Chrissie Cotter Gallery
Finalist – Sculpture on the Greens, Wyong
Finalist – Sculptures in the Vineyard, Wollombi
Finalist – UWS Sculpture Award, Campbelltown