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Wendy Murray | |
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Born | 1974 (age 49–50) |
Nationality | New Zealand |
Other names | Mini Graff |
Occupation(s) | Visual artist, graphic designer, academic |
Known for | Poster design |
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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]
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]
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]
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Wendy Murray | |
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Born | 1974 (age 49–50) |
Nationality | New Zealand |
Other names | Mini Graff |
Occupation(s) | Visual artist, graphic designer, academic |
Known for | Poster design |
Website |
www |
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]
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]
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]