Fiona
Murphy Fragmentation and Renewal
Sept 13 - Oct 5 2025
Fiona Murphy
Irregularity and assymetry are intrinsic to the natural world and also the hand forming processes and the materials I use. My skeletal and perforated clay forms are inspired by the intricate and detailed nature of coral structure and its processes. Rounded colorful forms express renewal.
From years of observing coastal and reef environments -wild nature is my muse.The duality of verdant growth and the bleached quality of old corals or bones is a focus.
My mixed media wall sculptures express reef environments evokative of fragmentation and renewal.The layered clay forms in the reliefs create a sense of habitat in a state of flux and transformation -movement and stillness, light and shade, positive form with negative space, growth to decay, concave to convex form
The smaller scaled works include playful imagery of building rubble/ fragments overgrown with coral-like forms as a type of future archeology.
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0417324 795
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Framed mixed media Relief.
335 x 259 x35 mm
$950
1. Blue Flow
2. Process
Framed mixed media Relief. 335 x 259 x35 mm
$950
335
$950
3. Coral Beached Framed mixed media Relief.
x 259 x35 mm
4. Microcosm
Framed mixed media Relief.
335 x 259 x 35 mm
$950
335
5. Stack
Framed mixed media Relief.
x 259 x 35 mm
$950
6. Architecture Stack
Framed mixed media Relief. 335 x 259 x 35 mm
$950
7. Architecture Beached
335 x 259 x35 mm
Framed mixed media relief
$950
8. Assemblage
Framed mixed media Relief
335 x 259 x35 mm
$950
335
$950
9. Mirror & Bowl
Framed mixed media Relief.
x 259 x35 mm
10. Flow
Framed mixed media Relief.
335 x 259 x35 mm
$950
11. Nature Reclaimed
Framed mixed media Relief. 335 x 259 x35 mm
$950
12. Ripple Effect
Mixed media Relief in wall case
650 x 280 x 60 mm
$2300
13. Beachcombing
Mixed media Relief in wall case.
315 x 239 x60 mm
$1,200
315
$1,200
14. Tidal
mixed media Relief in wall case
x 239 x 60 mm
mixed media Relief in wall cases
145 x 280
$5,100
15. Black Pools ( diptich)
x 60 mm
mixed media Relief in wall case.
315 x 239 x 60 mm
$1,200
16. Mast Wreckage
Mixed media Relief in wall case
315 x 239 x60 mm
$1,200
17. Beached Rubble
650
$2,600
18. Reef Bones II
Mixed media Relief in wall case
x 280 x 60 mm
150 x210 x 30mm
$800
19. Plant
Mixed media, metal case
20. Air
Mixed media, metal case
150 x210 x 30mm
$800
Mixed media, metal case
150 x210 x 30mm
$800
21. Tidal
150
$800
22. Micro Mixed media, metal case
x210 x 30mm
23. Specimens
Mixed media Relief in wall case
1000 x 350 x 60 mm
$3,800
24. Microlife
650×280×30 mm
Framed mixed media Relief
$2,600
25. Emergence
1001 × 350 × 83 mm
Framed mixed media relief
$3,800
Mixed media in metal cases
700×210x 30 mm
$3100
26. Oxygen (set of 4)
315
$1,200
27. Coral Overgrowth III
mixed media Relief in wall case.
x 239 x 60 mm
315
$1,200
28. Coral Overgrowth 1 mixed media Relief in wall case.
x 239 x60 mm
650
$2,600
29. Time & Tide
Mixed media Relief in wall case
x 280 x 60 mm
30. Fragmentation and Renewal
Mixed media relief in wall case
350 x 1000 x 60mm
$3,800
31. Absence and Presence
Mixed media Relief in wall case
650 x 280 x 60 mm
$2600
32. Shift & Flow
Mixed media Relief in wall case
650 x 280 x 60 mm
$2,300
315
$1,200
33. Coral Overgrowth II mixed media Relief in wall case.
x 239 x 60 mm
34. Marine Debris
mixed media Relief in wall case.
315 x 239 x 60 mm
$1,200
Artist - C.V.
QUALIFICATIONS
2013 Doctor of Philosophy in Visual Art; Monash University. Melbourne
2007 Master of Fine Art; Monash University. Melbourne
1993 Graduate Diploma in Education; Melbourne Institute of Education
1985 Graduate Diploma in Fine Art; Philip Institute of Technology.
1980 Diploma of Art & Design; Victoria College (formerly P.C.A.E.)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 & Gallery Australia
2024 Printmaker Gallery, Melbourne
2019 Printmaker Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne
2013 MADA Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne
2010 Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2008 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney.
2002 Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney.
2002 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
2000 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Beaver Galleries, Canberra
1996 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1994 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1992 Jam Factory, Adelaide
1991 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1987 Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne
1992/90/89/88/87/85
Macquarie Galleries, Sydney
1991 ‘Halpern & Murphy’ National Gallery of Victoria and Regional Galleries
AWARDS
2009-2013 Monash University APA Scholarship
2005 City of Hobart Art Prize
2004 Yering Sculpture Award
2001/1997/ 95/89/86/83 Australia Council; Visual Art/Craft board grants
2000 Arts Victoria Grant
1995 Bathurst Regional Gallery Art Award
1996 Shepparton Art Museum - Myer Ceramic Award
1993 Shepparton Art Museum - Myer Ceramic Award
1992 Shepparton Art Museum - Myer Ceramic Award
COMMISSIONS
2003/1999 Bronze Commissions ‘Reclaimed’ ‘Bud’ ‘Spiral’
1997/2003 Crown Casino, Melbourne. sculptured vessels
1995 Ruyton Girls School
1991 Shepparton Art Museum ‘Elements and Traces’