ANNEMARIE MURLAND FINE ARTIST & RESEARCHER
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  • STUDIO HIGHLIGHTS
  • About Annemarie Murland
    • Artist Statement >
      • Curriculum Vitae
      • Contact Us
  • Artist Residence Melbourne
    • Artist in Residence: Rankin Park Hospital
    • Artist in Residence: Mater Hospice
  • Migration in Practice: Painting
    • A Long Road Home: Ph.D. Exhibition, UON Gallery, Newcastle, 15 - 24 July, 2009. >
      • Painting a Multimedia Practice
      • Interdisciplinary Painting: Residency Box Hill Art Centre 2016 >
        • A Trio of Trespassers: Migration in Practice
        • East meets West: expressions in contemporary art, Galleria Tondinelli, Rome, 13 September - 9 October, 2010.
        • Structure becomes Image: the University of Newcastle Gallery 28 September - 13 October 2012.
        • Landscape: Mnemonic Scotland
        • Colour as Form: Abstraction, 2013.
        • Colour As Form: Landscape, 2013.
        • Painting the Past in the Present >
          • Portraiture: Jimmy Blue [migrant]
          • An Open Secret: repositioning abstraction, 2014.
          • Geography: Responses To Landscape, UON Gallery, Newcastle, 2 - 19 October, 2013.
          • Geography: Responses To The Landscape, GALLERY, 2013.
          • Out of Hand: The Depot Gallery, Sydney, 13 - 24 August, 2013.
          • Out of Hand: GALLERY
          • Not So Bizarre: Pop Up Exhibition, Studio 8, Newcastle Art Centre, Friday 14 - Sunday 16 June, 2013.
  • Migration In Practice: Drawing
    • Drawing As A Way Of Thinking
    • Interdisciplinary Drawing | Collage | Still Life | landscape >
      • Interdisciplinary Drawing 2016-17
      • Drawing into Printmaking
      • Drawing with Thread
      • Drawing as an Installation
      • Drawing: Selkie
      • Lines of Inquiry: marking time and place, 2013-14.
      • Drawing: Wrapped, 2011 - 2014. >
        • Wrapped: marking time, 2014.
  • Migration in Practice: International, Collaborative Practice Led Research Projects
    • The Migrant Woman Project 2018/19 >
      • The Book of Ruth: returned and returning migration
  • Stories of Origin: Centre for Creative Practice, Dublin, 2015.
  • Stories of Origin: installation
  • Stories of Origin: Migration in Practice Ireland 2015
  • Stories of Origin: Migration in Practice, Video.
  • Stories of Origin ll
  • Stories of Origin lll
  • Stories of Origin: Glasgow 2016
    • Stories of Origin GWL Video 2016
    • Stories of Origin: Essay
    • Stories of Origin: Glasgow Women's Library 2016
  • Greetings From The Irish in Australia: An International, Collaborative Project, 2013.
    • Greetings From the Irish in Australia: The Selkie
  • Field Work: Isle of Skye, Scotland, 2012.
  • Marian Thread: a visual research project in conjunction with The Ends of Ireland Conference, UNSW, December 2013.
    • The Marian Thread Essay: a homage to otherness, 2013.
    • Glasgow: The Dead End of Culture, 2007.
    • The Dead End of Culture: Documentary Photographs of Glasgow's East End, 2007
    • Publications & Academic Writing >
      • Migration in Practice: Poetry, After before White Rabbits
      • Academic Paper: Migration and Diaspora.
      • Academic Paper: Migration and Sense of Place
      • Glasgow in Context
      • Essay: A Trio of Trespassers: Murland, Devine, OToole
      • Essay: Lisa Slade: Annemarie Murland
      • Essay : Dr Aubry Byrnes
      • Essay : Pablo Tapia
      • Essay : Kiera O'Toole: homeWard bound
    • Commissions >
      • Press and Other Things >
        • Dizionario degli artisti italiani 2015
        • Irish Echo : The Gathering
        • Maitland Regional Gallery Art Mag
        • New Voices Ireland Wall Street International
        • Meet the Artist - Glasgow Women's Library
  • Art Education Program: Pathways to Abstraction
    • Project AM 730 >
      • Blended Learning: flipping the studio
      • Proposal: AM 730 PROJECT
      • What does ‘innovation’ within the teaching and learning of Painting practice look like. How can innovatory developments within the curriculum encourage painting’s potential as an educational and cultural force?
      • Experimental Drawing Intensive
      • What is Drawing?
      • Language and Meaning: Lecture Presentation by Dr Annemarie Murland
      • So you think you can't Draw
      • Understanding Abstraction Level 1
      • Dematerialisation
  • Home
  • STUDIO HIGHLIGHTS
  • About Annemarie Murland
    • Artist Statement >
      • Curriculum Vitae
      • Contact Us
  • Artist Residence Melbourne
    • Artist in Residence: Rankin Park Hospital
    • Artist in Residence: Mater Hospice
  • Migration in Practice: Painting
    • A Long Road Home: Ph.D. Exhibition, UON Gallery, Newcastle, 15 - 24 July, 2009. >
      • Painting a Multimedia Practice
      • Interdisciplinary Painting: Residency Box Hill Art Centre 2016 >
        • A Trio of Trespassers: Migration in Practice
        • East meets West: expressions in contemporary art, Galleria Tondinelli, Rome, 13 September - 9 October, 2010.
        • Structure becomes Image: the University of Newcastle Gallery 28 September - 13 October 2012.
        • Landscape: Mnemonic Scotland
        • Colour as Form: Abstraction, 2013.
        • Colour As Form: Landscape, 2013.
        • Painting the Past in the Present >
          • Portraiture: Jimmy Blue [migrant]
          • An Open Secret: repositioning abstraction, 2014.
          • Geography: Responses To Landscape, UON Gallery, Newcastle, 2 - 19 October, 2013.
          • Geography: Responses To The Landscape, GALLERY, 2013.
          • Out of Hand: The Depot Gallery, Sydney, 13 - 24 August, 2013.
          • Out of Hand: GALLERY
          • Not So Bizarre: Pop Up Exhibition, Studio 8, Newcastle Art Centre, Friday 14 - Sunday 16 June, 2013.
  • Migration In Practice: Drawing
    • Drawing As A Way Of Thinking
    • Interdisciplinary Drawing | Collage | Still Life | landscape >
      • Interdisciplinary Drawing 2016-17
      • Drawing into Printmaking
      • Drawing with Thread
      • Drawing as an Installation
      • Drawing: Selkie
      • Lines of Inquiry: marking time and place, 2013-14.
      • Drawing: Wrapped, 2011 - 2014. >
        • Wrapped: marking time, 2014.
  • Migration in Practice: International, Collaborative Practice Led Research Projects
    • The Migrant Woman Project 2018/19 >
      • The Book of Ruth: returned and returning migration
  • Stories of Origin: Centre for Creative Practice, Dublin, 2015.
  • Stories of Origin: installation
  • Stories of Origin: Migration in Practice Ireland 2015
  • Stories of Origin: Migration in Practice, Video.
  • Stories of Origin ll
  • Stories of Origin lll
  • Stories of Origin: Glasgow 2016
    • Stories of Origin GWL Video 2016
    • Stories of Origin: Essay
    • Stories of Origin: Glasgow Women's Library 2016
  • Greetings From The Irish in Australia: An International, Collaborative Project, 2013.
    • Greetings From the Irish in Australia: The Selkie
  • Field Work: Isle of Skye, Scotland, 2012.
  • Marian Thread: a visual research project in conjunction with The Ends of Ireland Conference, UNSW, December 2013.
    • The Marian Thread Essay: a homage to otherness, 2013.
    • Glasgow: The Dead End of Culture, 2007.
    • The Dead End of Culture: Documentary Photographs of Glasgow's East End, 2007
    • Publications & Academic Writing >
      • Migration in Practice: Poetry, After before White Rabbits
      • Academic Paper: Migration and Diaspora.
      • Academic Paper: Migration and Sense of Place
      • Glasgow in Context
      • Essay: A Trio of Trespassers: Murland, Devine, OToole
      • Essay: Lisa Slade: Annemarie Murland
      • Essay : Dr Aubry Byrnes
      • Essay : Pablo Tapia
      • Essay : Kiera O'Toole: homeWard bound
    • Commissions >
      • Press and Other Things >
        • Dizionario degli artisti italiani 2015
        • Irish Echo : The Gathering
        • Maitland Regional Gallery Art Mag
        • New Voices Ireland Wall Street International
        • Meet the Artist - Glasgow Women's Library
  • Art Education Program: Pathways to Abstraction
    • Project AM 730 >
      • Blended Learning: flipping the studio
      • Proposal: AM 730 PROJECT
      • What does ‘innovation’ within the teaching and learning of Painting practice look like. How can innovatory developments within the curriculum encourage painting’s potential as an educational and cultural force?
      • Experimental Drawing Intensive
      • What is Drawing?
      • Language and Meaning: Lecture Presentation by Dr Annemarie Murland
      • So you think you can't Draw
      • Understanding Abstraction Level 1
      • Dematerialisation
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Artists Statement


​Primarily, my art practice and research interests explore the transitory and embodied aspects of a personal experience of migration. Underpinned by the legacy of an itinerant family history that is defined by the Irish Diaspora, my cultural identity, and a sense of belonging is and remains an unresolved condition of migration.
To that end, I continue to move between the Northern and Southern hemispheres searching for visual, and textual touchstones that negotiate the past while informing the present to regenerate ideas.
 
I am particularly interested in the process- material interdependence between drawing and painting, that when modified and expressed in equally represented terms has the visual capacity to translate migration, a current global phenomenon, as felt experience. As such, thinking through the process of making addresses some of the complexities that surround the question of female migration, but continues to be an ongoing temporal dilemma that I have yet to resolve artistically.
 
My approach to art-making is interdisciplinary. A fluid, spontaneous and intuitive mark-making strategy connects the two disciplines, drawing and painting that is expressed using traditional materials. Abstraction is the vehicle that I employ to link form and content as a means to explore the space that exists between making, thinking and feeling.
 
Rendering first-person experience, as such, is characterized by a methodology that I developed during postgraduate studies that weave wet and dry mediums and materials into grid-like sgraffito. This process is interrupted by free-flowing gestures that might seem disparate but, are interconnected through the space they occupy. As a visual image, these two opposing forms present a sense of unity through their aesthetic value and variety of line that direct the viewers gaze towards no fixed point, creating an all-over spatial experience.


 
 
Annemarie Murland is a Scottish artist and educator living in Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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