RO MURRAY
‘Wareamah and Gong-ul’ – $550
2024, Unique Print, lino print on Somerset 300gsm, 34 x 46 cm
Ro’s art practice is influenced by her career as an architect for thirty years, and later attending NAS (BFA Hons 2010). Since 2018 her art practice has focussed on relief printmaking, and its extension as wall constructions and installations.
Ro has staged ten solo exhibitions and been selected for many art prizes and awards. This year her lino printed pianola rolls were exhibited in the Paper Room at Sydney Contemporary with Tiliqua Tiliqua (where she prints), the Canberra Art Biennial, and the Arte Laguna Prize in the Arsenale Venice. Ro has developed a landscape language, combining abstract geographical shapes, historic research and topographic maps to make a landscape journey on reused rolls of perforated paper.
Wareamah and Gong-ul are two islands on Burramattagal (Parramatta River), is part of a new landscape journey for Ro, revisiting her past, where her convict ancestor had lived at Kissing Point, and she nearby rowing on the river.