Fionna Murray : Drawings
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
26 June - 14 July 2001
Fionna Murray currently lives and works in Galway city. She grew up in the U.K. of Irish parents and much of her work is imbued with a sense of dislocation and an exploration of identity and origins. In 1995 she graduated with a B.A. from the Chelsea College of Art in London and received a Masters in Fine Art from the University of Ulster in 1997. This is her second solo show with the Rubicon Gallery in Dublin.Fionna Murray has also had a major two-person exhibition at Galway Arts Centre late last year and has participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout the country.
Her recent works consist of meticulous and deliberated ‘drawings’ with recurrent symbolic images or motifs; dwellings, hearths, flames and footprints. These moving minimal images deal with themes of privacy and identity in a way that defies explanation or even articulation. She lays down her marks with great consideration. These ‘marks’ are used as notations rather than descriptions. Delicate lines of sewing and subtle collage heighten the work’s materiality whilst hinting at the drawn line; defining location points, boundaries and areas of absence or presence.
“Boundaries are mapped out in a search for fragments and resemblances between things through the constant repetition of marks and erasures”.
In viewing Fionna Murray’s work one has a sense of private spaces being uncovered, places to take measure of one’s own physical presence. She registers the residue of experience and memory as a container for an elusive narrative of meanings.
RUBICON GALLERY
10 St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2
www.rubicongallery.ie
