ANNEMARIE MURLAND FINE ARTIST & RESEARCHER
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  • 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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Migration in Practice: Drawing

What is Drawing?

Drawing on Women's Stories: without them we would have no community to talk off , and without that we would have no culture.

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Interdisciplinary Drawing: Mixed Media on Styrofoam, 2016.

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Interdisciplinary Drawing: Mixed Media on Paper on Board, 2018.

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Drawing with Thread, Paper and Ink, 2016.


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Weaving Stories yet Untold#1: Mixed Media on Khozo Paper, 2018.

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Weaving Stories yet Untold#2: Mixed Media on Khozo Paper, 2018.


Drawing: A Question of Materiality

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​My approach to drawing is fluid, spontaneous and intuitive, exploring the space in which materiality links process and practice. As a tacit language, drawing is both the subject and object of my abstract visual ideas, which are conceptually framed within a language of resistance and representation. Embodied in a Celtic cultural context, the works refer to the phenomena of migration referencing a personal itinerant history as well as the broader history of mass migration from an Irish/Scottish perspective. Drawing, as such, is a felt experience that blends practice and theory, the conscious and unconscious, absence and presence.


Expanding drawings visual literacy is an important characteristic of my creative research and studio practice that function through a multidisciplinary lens, encompassing aspects of painting, printmaking and fibre textiles. An interdisciplinary approach to drawing has assisted in the development of a personal drawing methodology that employs wet and dry materials and hand made knitted surfaces to recreate woven surfaces that evoke a sensory aesthetic that is culturally specific.

In combining conventional and new material methodologies in the practice of drawing it is my intention to advance my creative practice and material knowledge and further challenge drawings traditional boundaries through overlapping empiricism with the language of drawing. In contextualising drawing within this framework, drawing is in a state of becoming and can be translated as ‘anything’. As such, drawing has the capacity to expand its own place within the canon of Western Art through material knowledge building, which in effect contributes to finding meaning and understanding.


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