Pope Joan, Digital Print, 40x40cm, 2015, Stories of Origin, Dublin, 2015.
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The Marian Thread, Digital Print, 20x23cm, 2013.
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The Dead End of Culture, Glasgow 2007, Digital Print 20x23cm, 2007.
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Born in Glasgow 1962 Annemarie Murland knew from a very young age that she would leave her native Scotland and explore the world beyond her ancestral roots. Migration was and still plays a significant role in the family’s itinerant history, which had its origins in the Irish Diaspora.
Annemarie has travelled extensively and has worked in many places, but eventually she migrated to Australia in 1990 with her husband. It was at this juncture that she comprehensively began to examine the complexities of identity politics and what it means to belong or not through her Fine Arts studies at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales where she was awarded a University Medal and Faculty Medal for her contribution to knowledge production in the field of visual art, practice and theory.
Annemarie was and continues to be a passionate advocate for the visual as a means of interpreting the world around her. Murland’s interdisciplinary visual research initiatives were recognised and rewarded with the award of an Australian Postgraduate Scholarship for the duration of her doctor of philosophy candidature, which was awarded in 2009. Entitled: Migration Memory and Landscape: Recontextualsing Personal Experience through the Vehicle of Abstraction illustrated Murland’s creative and intellectual skills through the development of a personal painting and drawing methodology that offered an alternate reading of the discordant relationships between the Scottish and Australian landscape. Along with a formal exegesis, the creative component incorporated poetry, documentary photography, video and an exhibition of paintings and drawings as an installation. This cross-disciplinary approach proved particularly effective in providing a visually literate means to explore a personal migrant experience within a contemporary global context.
Annemarie’s career as an academic and early career research was shaped by her long-term employment as a sessional academic [2006-2014] at the University of Newcastle where she taught within the Fine Art Programme and supervised postgraduate students in both practice and theory. Annemarie is currently an independent artist – researcher and educator whose interests focus on the primacy of studio practice as a research tool. Murland continues to expand her art practice through her international exhibiting and guest lecturer profile.
Her latest exhibition, Stories of Origin had its inaugural debut in Dublin at the Centre for Creative Practice (16th-29th January, 2015). The opportunity to exhibit in Ireland provided Annemarie with the space and the place to pay homage to her Irish ancestors, particularly the women in her life who were marginalised and disenfranchised due to their culture background and religious beliefs. The works presented as a series of digital portraits and video installation that provided the framework from which to challenge a religious and social identity politics. Laced with cultural signs and symbols the portraits reflected a legacy of changing perspectives on how we know ourselves by contesting the central myth that locates the feminine as domestic and private, and the masculine as heroic and public.
Annemarie has also been involved in local Arts Health initiatives and has collaborated in several creative research projects that were primarily concerned with the topic of migration and how cultural hierarchies affect the formation of identity structures from a feminist perspective. The collaborations employed experimental drawing strategies, material processes and a performance that, within the context of contemporary fine art contributed to existing dialogues in this area of study.
Murland’s contemporary abstract painted works of art form as part of the University of Newcastle’s international collection that comprises of over one thousand works of art, which exhibits the best of both regional and national works. Annemarie’s works of art also form as part of Maitland Regional Art Gallery collection and several other international private collections.
Annemarie has travelled extensively and has worked in many places, but eventually she migrated to Australia in 1990 with her husband. It was at this juncture that she comprehensively began to examine the complexities of identity politics and what it means to belong or not through her Fine Arts studies at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales where she was awarded a University Medal and Faculty Medal for her contribution to knowledge production in the field of visual art, practice and theory.
Annemarie was and continues to be a passionate advocate for the visual as a means of interpreting the world around her. Murland’s interdisciplinary visual research initiatives were recognised and rewarded with the award of an Australian Postgraduate Scholarship for the duration of her doctor of philosophy candidature, which was awarded in 2009. Entitled: Migration Memory and Landscape: Recontextualsing Personal Experience through the Vehicle of Abstraction illustrated Murland’s creative and intellectual skills through the development of a personal painting and drawing methodology that offered an alternate reading of the discordant relationships between the Scottish and Australian landscape. Along with a formal exegesis, the creative component incorporated poetry, documentary photography, video and an exhibition of paintings and drawings as an installation. This cross-disciplinary approach proved particularly effective in providing a visually literate means to explore a personal migrant experience within a contemporary global context.
Annemarie’s career as an academic and early career research was shaped by her long-term employment as a sessional academic [2006-2014] at the University of Newcastle where she taught within the Fine Art Programme and supervised postgraduate students in both practice and theory. Annemarie is currently an independent artist – researcher and educator whose interests focus on the primacy of studio practice as a research tool. Murland continues to expand her art practice through her international exhibiting and guest lecturer profile.
Her latest exhibition, Stories of Origin had its inaugural debut in Dublin at the Centre for Creative Practice (16th-29th January, 2015). The opportunity to exhibit in Ireland provided Annemarie with the space and the place to pay homage to her Irish ancestors, particularly the women in her life who were marginalised and disenfranchised due to their culture background and religious beliefs. The works presented as a series of digital portraits and video installation that provided the framework from which to challenge a religious and social identity politics. Laced with cultural signs and symbols the portraits reflected a legacy of changing perspectives on how we know ourselves by contesting the central myth that locates the feminine as domestic and private, and the masculine as heroic and public.
Annemarie has also been involved in local Arts Health initiatives and has collaborated in several creative research projects that were primarily concerned with the topic of migration and how cultural hierarchies affect the formation of identity structures from a feminist perspective. The collaborations employed experimental drawing strategies, material processes and a performance that, within the context of contemporary fine art contributed to existing dialogues in this area of study.
Murland’s contemporary abstract painted works of art form as part of the University of Newcastle’s international collection that comprises of over one thousand works of art, which exhibits the best of both regional and national works. Annemarie’s works of art also form as part of Maitland Regional Art Gallery collection and several other international private collections.