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

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Re-Animation: Body/Space/Light

Animation #1, 2014.
Digital photograph, 36cm x 24cm.

Suspension, 2014.
Digital photograph, 36cm x 24cm.

Animation #2, 2014.
Digital photograph, 36cm x 24cm.

Ascension, 2014.
Digital photograph, 36cm x 24cm.
 
Animation #3, 2014.
Digital photograph, 36cm x 24cm.

Light is life - vitality in-the-moment, giving the future purpose and vigour. Museums are archives of the dead - the past stilled, at rest, immobile, but not forgotten. Working with statuary and architecture in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK), this series explores the interplay of light, space and photographic composition in order to animate bodies that have never been living. This animated interplay opens up new and alternative worlds. Ambient light reconstitutes the museum as a performance, where statues interact and engage with the materiality and atmosphere of interior space. In this performative archive, stilled bodies of stone and marble are enlivened, and the interior architecture of the museum becomes a spiritual as well as physical lifeworld in which their imagined lives are re-played in the present. Geographical and temporal imaginations are reconfigured: the past is both suspended in the present and ascends towards the future.
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