Idris Murphy: Backblocks
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Author: Steven Harvey, Terence Maloon, Jacques Delaruelle
“Idris Murphy’s work ... evokes neither a clear and distinct knowledge of the outside world, nor a mapping of the Australian landscape that would relocate its otherness in the familiar indifference of the decorative arts, his art offers a magnificent opportunity to escape from the realm of the déjà vu.” Jacques DelaruelleThis survey publication catches a great Australian painter at the height of his powers. Born in 1952, Idris Murphy developed deep roots in the history of painting as well as a profound feeling for the natural environment. Murphy’s idiom transcends “either/or” — it is indistinguishably landscape painting and painterly abstraction all at once. Arising from a sort of improvisatory incantation, the most vivid metaphors of land, space, light, mood and feeling seem to coalesce spontaneously and unbidden.This happens even when Murphy’s pictorial means strike us as most improbable and outlandish: recent paintings make abundant use of metallic pigments and wildly abstruse colour combinations. Despite their bizarrerie and casual-looking primitivism, each painting resolves brilliantly into its surface and shape, and exudes a rare poetry of “place”.
ISBN 9780645488326. Drill Hall Publishing. pb. 64 pages. 21 x 22 cm.
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“Idris Murphy’s work ... evokes neither a clear and distinct knowledge of the outside world, nor a mapping of the Australian landscape that would relocate its otherness in the familiar indifference of the decorative arts, his art offers a magnificent opportunity to escape from the realm of the déjà vu.” Jacques DelaruelleThis survey publication catches a great Australian painter at the height of his powers. Born in 1952, Idris Murphy developed deep roots in the history of painting as well as a profound feeling for the natural environment. Murphy’s idiom transcends “either/or” — it is indistinguishably landscape painting and painterly abstraction all at once. Arising from a sort of improvisatory incantation, the most vivid metaphors of land, space, light, mood and feeling seem to coalesce spontaneously and unbidden.This happens even when Murphy’s pictorial means strike us as most improbable and outlandish: recent paintings make abundant use of metallic pigments and wildly abstruse colour combinations. Despite their bizarrerie and casual-looking primitivism, each painting resolves brilliantly into its surface and shape, and exudes a rare poetry of “place”.
ISBN 9780645488326. Drill Hall Publishing. pb. 64 pages. 21 x 22 cm.
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