Artist Statement

Artist Statement

My photography and art practice is influenced strongly by my professional training in cultural geography. My artwork is conceptually-driven, and simultaneously personal and political. In my visual arts practice, I am drawn to understanding diverse relationships between identity, place and environment. On the one hand, my work explores the intersections of cultural and natural systems, including human-animal relations, conservation, urban nature, streetscapes, architecture, capital exchange and natural elements. On the other hand, I also delve into political and psychological work that captures shifting moments of selfhood, identification and belonging.

For information on my academic work, see: https://uws.academia.edu/AndrewGormanMurray

Contact me via email: andrewgm3 [at] gmail.com

Copyright Statement

Copyright Statement

All images and text statements appearing on this website are copyrighted © 2013-2015 Andrew Gorman-Murray. Images may not be reproduced, copied, transmitted or manipulated without the written permission of Andrew Gorman-Murray. Citation of text is permitted providing the author (Andrew Gorman-Murray) and source (this website) are correctly attributed.

One World Bondi

 
One World Bondi, 2014.
Metallic print, 38cm x 25.5cm.

'Landscape' is a visual concept that connects the disciplines of contemporary art and cultural geography. Working at the threshold of these fields, I apply visual arts practice to scrutinise cultural geography, and vice versa. In doing this, I am interested in exploring landscape as a 'throwntogether' assemblage. Contrary to classic tropes of the picturesque and sublime, which imag(in)e landscape as timeless and awesome, landscape is an evolving and changing performance. Landscape is a shifting timespace - a fleeting assemblage of natural elements, atmospheres, light, shade, cultural objects, and moving bodies (human and/or non-human), which intersect at a specific place-in-time to create a moment-in-situ. These elements move at different temporal scales - geological, seasonal, diurnal, momentary, and the cycles of creation and decay of the built environment. One World Bondi captures a landscape performance. The natural and built environments meet at the fuzzy boundary of the littoral zone, where water and light continually re-assemble the moment of their interpenetration. 'One World', where cultural and natural elements entwine. 

This artwork has been purchased as a metallic print by collectors.   
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