Abby Murray
Theoretically, my practice dances with ideas surrounding how grief may function as a way of entering familial archives to inform new pathways into memory-making. Through a haptic, and at times obsessive notion of making I employ reclamation, remembering, erasing and recording to morph personal histories into re-imagined narratives. Using art and craft practices that are both self-taught and inherited, corporeally and through the detritus of my matrilineal line, I blend the boundaries of painting, textiles, sculpture and installation. My multi-disciplinary practice questions how familial material histories (histories that carry formal, haptic, personal, feminist, and political logics) can be folded into an autobiographical story-telling practice.
I am an emerging American-Australian artist currently living and working on Gurangai and Gadigal Land. I recently graduated from UNSW Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (2024) and have a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Fashion Design) from Columbia College Chicago (2012). Since Immigrating to Australia in 2020 I have consistently exhibited throughout the country, including at UNSW Galleries, Sydenham International, AIRspace Projects, AD Space and DrawSpace. Most recently I was a finalist (highly commended) at the Jenny Birt Painting Prize (2023) and am currently a studio resident at the City of Sydney Creative Studios, Bathurst Street.