Future Foundations : Workshop /  by Wendy Murray

Future Foundations curated by Troppo Print Studio, celebrates the past, present and future of poster and print making. Bringing together Australian print collectives and individuals from foundational to contemporary practice, Future Foundations aims to empower viewers and participants to build, share and distribute their own ideas via print.

Within this intergenerational meeting of ideas, there will be space for collaboration of new work in reaction to Australia’s contemporary issues. Current and foundational works sit side-by-side to demonstrate that yesterday’s environmental, political and social problems are still proving relevant today, as history repeats itself.

Workshop Details
Date: 11am Saturday 7th September 2024
Location: Counihan Gallery, Brunswick AUS
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Detroit Daily /  by Wendy Murray

Detroit, MI / USA 28 June - 11 July, 2024
Daily Drawings by Wendy Murray
4.7 x 6.3 in (16 x 12cm)
Ink pen & gouache on archival museum board (4ply)

Hollywood Debris /  by Wendy Murray

Hollywood Debris, 2024

Wendy Murray, in collaboration with Lesley Wheeler
Printer: Wendy Murray Studios
Dimensions: 48 x 16 in
Medium: 22 paper stencil layers (serigraph / stencils) on cotton rag
Edition:10

Hollywood Debris is part of a collaborative series responding to the artist Paul DeLongpre, a French painter of flowers who lived in Hollywood just as Hollywood became Hollywood. Poet Lesley Wheeler and I saw in him mystery—an artist who made a (opulent) living solely from his ability to paint extremely realistic, beautiful flowers, who drew thousands of people to his home and gardens to see where the magic happened. But now, where his mansion once stood is a city block. We have been drawing, printing, and writing and have plans for a site specific installation. Hollywood Debris is a riff on a DeLongpre painting – the trash replacing the DeLongpre immigrant garden flowers, the helicopters replacing butterflies and bees. Created from a drawing and 22 paper cut stencils, the work was printed in Murray’s tiny Silver Lake garage studio.