Wendy Murray (artist)

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Wendy Murray
Born1974 (age 4950)
NationalityNew Zealand
Other namesMini Graff
Occupation(s)Visual artist, graphic designer, academic
Known forPoster design
Website www.wendymurray.com.au

Wendy Murray, (born 1974) is a visual artist and arts educator, formerly known as Mini Graff. Under her former persona, Murray worked as an urban street-poster artist between 2003 and 2010, working in and around Sydney's urban fringe. Since 2014, Murray's art expanded into traditional forms of drawing and artist book design, whilst still engaging with social and political issues through poster-making. Murray's use of letraset transfers, accompanied with vibrant colours and fluorescent inks, references the work of studios from the 1960s through to the 1980s, including the community-based Earthworks Poster Collective [1] and Redback Graphix. [2] A 2018 collaboration with The Urban Crew, a 17-person collective of socially engaged geographers, planners, political scientists and sociologists, resulted in the Sydney – We Need to Talk! artist book. [3]

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Background,

Wendy Murray was born in New Zealand. She gained a Bachelor in Design from Massey University, New Zealand, in 1999 and, following a move to Australia, earned a Master of Fine Arts from the National Art School, Sydney, in 2014. Between 2008 and 2012 she was Project Coordinator at MAY’S – The May Lane Street Art Project, Sydney. Her academic teaching career included positions as Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the National Art School, Sydney between 2010 and 2015, and Lecturer in Printmedia at the Sydney College of the Arts between 2011 and 2012 and from 2015 to 2019. Wendy Murray was a consultant researcher in Geography and Urban Studies at the University of Western Sydney during 2013–14. [4]

Work as Mini Graff,

The streets and inhabitants of Sydney's urban fringe provided the content and impetus for Wendy Murray's work as Mini Graff. Graff stenciled and printed images onto a variety of media (walls, boards, vinyl, paper, rarely canvas), which strongly relate to the given environment and community, transforming an anonymous repetitive urban landscape into a unique and personal aesthetic experience. Parody, humour and social commentary are common themes in Graff's work – notions that are translated into experiments with scale in public space – from discrete interventions to large-scale installations.[ citation needed ]

Mini Graff is featured in the video for Deepchild's song "Blackness of the Sea". [5]

Exhibitions and workshops,

Residencies,

Selected commissions and awards,

Publications,

Artist books,

Curatorial,

Education,

See also,

References,

  1. Therese Kenyon, Under a hot tin roof: Art, passion and politics at the Tin Shed art workshop, Power Publications, Sydney, 1995, 152p.
  2. Anne Zagala, Redback Graphix, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2008, 128p.
  3. Vanessa Berry, Talking Across Cities: the Urban Crew’s Sydney – We Need to Talk!’, Sydney – We Need to Talk Blog, 28 September 2018. Accessed 5 January 2019.
  4. Wendy Murray – Artist and Arts Educator (website), www.wendymurray.com.au
  5. Blackness of the Sea
  6. "Brunswick Street Gallery WOP 2010 Finalists". May 2010. Archived from the original on 15 August 2010.
  7. "The Ikea Home Project". July 2009. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  8. "GRRRLS". February 2008.
  9. "extra cheese". May 2007. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011.
  10. "Building Sites Taking Shape". September 2006.
  11. "Stencil Festival". August 2006. Archived from the original on 19 August 2008.
  12. "Post-it: An Exquisite Corpse". June 2006. Archived from the original on 1 September 2007.
  13. "Mini Graff's Panel for Mays". May 2006. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008.
  14. "Sydney Esquisse 05". April 2005.
  15. "Megalo Print Studio and Gallery". August 2010.
  16. "Hill End Press". May 2010. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
  17. "Mini Graff video interview at Hill End Press". YouTube . May 2010.
  18. Propaganda – A Selection of Posters from the Australian War Memorial, Arts Review.
  19. Propaganda Exhibition, Australian Financial Review
  20. It's A Wrap – Typsetting and Printing, 4 April 2018 (blog)
  21. University of Sydney Printer in Residence Award (webpage)
  22. Love is Hard Work – Castlemaine, 2018
  23. Love is Hard Work – Castlemaine, 2018
  24. The Newtown Hub / Newtown Art Seat, 2017
  25. The Newtown Hub / Newtown Art Seat, 2017
  26. Behind this Smile, Hobsons Bay City Council, 2014
  27. FEMINAE – Typographic Voices of Women, 2018
  28. Banksy in the Burbs, Art Guide, 2016
  29. The Daily – Drawing Inspiration, National Library of Australia (catalogue entry).
  30. Wendy Murray on Political Posters and Unleashing Collective Power in Fresh Blood, Art Guide, 2018.
  31. Fresh Blood – Redback Graphix and its Aftermarth, 2018 (webpage)
  32. Fresh Blood – Redback Graphix, 2018 (webpage)

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