CONTEMPORARY ART STOCKROOM Kendal Murray

Kendal Murray is known for imaginative and often whimsical artworks that explore the links between interiority, and the performance of social knowledge. Her sculptures survey the embodiment of these connections, through her combination of emblematic materials and bespoke techniques, which inform the physical and emotive resonance of her artworks.
The manipulation of readily identifiable everyday objects, combined with a range of evocative materials, is used by Murray to prompt an assortment of narrative associations and the examination of personal and social concepts. Through her solo exhibitions, Murray has explored themes of gender and beauty, plastic surgery and the commodification of body image, the gendering of memory, nostalgia, and collecting, and more recently, dream imagery in the design of self-image.

Murray has exhibited her artwork regularly in solo exhibitions since 1995, whilst participating in both international and national group exhibitions. Her work is represented in private Australian and international collections, and public collections including the Powerhouse Museum, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Grafton Regional Gallery, the University of New South Wales, and the Western Sydney University Collection. Murray has also been the recipient of several prizes, including The Deakin University Small Sculpture Award (2015), and the Beowulf Prize, as part of the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. She lives and works in Sydney, Australia.

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Commonplace, Meeting Place, Interlace 2020
mixed media assemblage
8cm x 7cm x 8.5cm
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Sewing, Flowing, Outgoing 2020
mixed media assemblage
8cm x 7cm x 8cm
$1,950 AUD

Windfall, Install, Enthrall 2020
mixed media assemblage
8cm x 7cm x 8cm
$1,950 AUD

Give and Take, Keep Sake 2019
mixed media assemblage
25cm x 15cm x 4.5cm
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Unbox, Paint Box 2019
mixed media assemblage
15cm x 25cm x 4.5cm
$2,000 AUD