Ro Murray

About the work

Brief Statement of Facts explores my interest in stories and places. Based on research about the Hume and Hovell 1824 overland expedition from Lake George/Weereewaa to Port Phillip, as part of the colonial gaze to “discover” land for occupation. The work uses the scroll form as a landscape journey with topographic and historic references, particularly around Canberra. The title comes from the 1835 pamphlet by Hamilton Hume to refute William Hovell as the leader of the expedition. 

Nine rolls were printed during a residency in 2024 at Megalo Print Studio Canberra

image credits to the artist

About the artist

Ro Murray is a trans-disciplinary artist moving between Mt Victoria, Sydney and Killcare. Her art practice is influenced by her former career in architecture and attending the National Art School as a mature age student, majoring in sculpture. Since 2018 her practice has focussed on relief printmaking. More recently her work on pianola rolls concerns place as a landscape journey, across topographic and historic references. 

Ro has staged many solo exhibitions and been selected for many art prizes and awards. This year she will take part in the Paper Room of Sydney Contemporary. 

Ro is also part of the creative partnership Murray and Burgess, who make installations concerned about the environment, currently the critical situation of the Regent Honeyeater.

 

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