Lauren Murphy
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmaking)
What drives my process is the desire to escape – escape from a world we are conditioned, from a young age, to see as normal. While I enjoy using my practice to catch a break from this world, the aim of my work is to bring those characters whose realities we use to escape into our own. Having a particular interest in the uncanny, I add animalistic features to familiar characters, and place them in photographs of Melbourne. My goal is to suggest what a new reality could be like if these characters were to infiltrate recognisable spaces, and to suggest a new, more open definition of ‘normal’. Combining mixed-media paintings with photography, I am able to explore this and further my desire for escapism.
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing & Printmaking)
