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.

Topographical Weave

Topographical Weave #1, 2014.
Digital composite of original photographs, book cover, 16.6cm x 16cm.

This digital artwork visualises the intersection of topography, corporeality and masculinity. The image writes embodied masculinity into the globe, while simultaneously writing the world onto male bodies. The work is a composite of original photographs: a mural on King Street, Newtown, Sydney, Australia, depicting the globe with the Australian continent centred (an atypical rendering of the world in itself, which usually centres the Anglo-American sphere) and a Roman statue of demigods fighting, found in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. In using these original images from vastly different historical and geographical settings, the work thus also intersects antiquity/modernity and old/new worlds in speculating about the co-constitution of masculinity, place and embodiment. The piece is published as the book cover image for Masculinities and Place (2014, Ashgate, edited by Andrew Gorman-Murray and Peter Hopkins).
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