Joan Murray
Addressing ideas of historical memory, identity and discovery, Joan’s work explores the associations we have with the material evidence of our own history.
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Her images, mainly sourced from cartography and archaeology, make reference to site plans, excavation diagrams, and architectural spaces; along with these references to place her tool shapes speak of invention, function and survival.
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Sometimes a single form evolves from the neutrality of the white paper. In other drawings, shapes become points of identification; they float among map sections to create a mesh of new relationships.
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Within this narrative Joan will often include lines that represent her own journeys: their shapes originally traced out on street maps appear as records specifically related to her own past.
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Joan’s mixed media approach includes graphite, colour pencil, pastel and watercolour.
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