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.

Beyond the Golden Hour

After Sunrise, 2014.
Digital photograph, 17cm x 25cm.

Before Sunset, 2014.
Digital photograph, 17cm x 25cm.

In photography, the hour after sunrise and the hour before sunset are 'the golden hours', when light is 'magical'. This is a human idealisation of light and atmosphere, and works against the assemblage of light, atmosphere and landscape across the diurnal cycle. In Beyond the Golden Hour, I sought images from the hour after the golden hour of sunrise and the hour before the golden hour of sunset. I wanted to capture the magical assemblage of light and atmosphere at these mundane times of the day during late summer in Sydney. The summer light glances off buildings and suffuses through foliage (of the weeping bottlebrush). It enhances the colour and tone of natural and built elements of landscape, and radiates its own colour spectra.  
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