Grace McMurray

Grace McMurray reconstitutes ideas of drawing and traditional craft methods through the relationship between the digital and the handmade.  Employing geometric patterns and symmetry to construct a soothing familiarity, the ostentation of the work strives for visibility. The objects exude order and purpose but it’s a performative wellness to distract from the illusion of control.  Through this deeply personal work reflexive upon the spaces they occupy and exist in, McMurray finds beauty in the underside, the exposed edges and the overlooked.  As such, creating textile installations symbolising the private sphere of the domestic.  Such labour-intensive work unravels notions of social conditioning, gendered labour and its value.

She studied BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture, Wimbledon College of Art (2005-08). Selected Solo Exhibition: Woven Polyhedra, University of Ulster, Belfast (2018). Selected Group Exhibitions include: Irish Modernisms, CCA Derry; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2019); Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London (2015); Synthetic Aesthetics, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland (2012); Watershed, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong (2010). Awards include: Turner Prize 2021 with Array Collective

Exhibitions: Irish Modernisms at CCA Derry 2021, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019

Interview: Butterfly & Bee (p.36-37)