TOWNER ARTIST'S TALK

Installation View: Shell, 2006, Pallant House, Chichester

I'm hoping to get along to the talk coming up on Saturday 2 July at Towner by artist Susie MacMurray. I've been an admirer of her work for some time so it will be good to hear her talk about her practice.  If you're unfamilar with her work, there are some great images on her website as well as some interesting essays and reviews of her exhibitions.   

MacMurray is a Manchester based artist and it's her intuitive response to historic buildings that I particularly admire, such as her work Stratum currently on show at Islington Mill where she has filled the space with 80kg of feather down.  It was at Pallant House in 2006 that I first experienced her work when she covered the walls of the stairwell with red velvet and over 20,000 mussell shells (pictured).  Also that year, her work Echo saw the medieval church, York St Mary’s, filled with 10,000 hairnets containing strands of violin bow-hair.  The importance of materials and process to MacMurray is evident in all these labour intensive works.  There is a huge investment of time and making and so its not surprising that MacMurray is one of the six sculptors in the Compulsive, Obsessive, Repetitive exhibition which also opens on 2 July at Towner.  Another good reason as far as I'm concerned to spend the day in Eastbourne.

www.susiemacmurray.co.uk 

Towner Artist Talk: SUSIE MACMURRAY
Saturday 2 July at 1pm: £4/£3 concessions – booking is advisable as numbers are limited.
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