Idris Murphy
In Australia there is an ongoing tradition of landscape painting that goes back for more than two centuries. There is also another tradition in Australian art that can be termed “painting country” that goes back millennia and is still thriving today. The Western European landscape tradition, that was imported to Australia, involves observing and recording […]
Idris Murphy | The art of the heliograph
In Issue 39, Idris Murphy enlightened us on the art of the heliograph – a lesser-known part of his practice and complimentary process to his approach to landscape painting.
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Like an antelope through a python…
Is art education in Australia focusing on producing an epidemic of mediocre PhD theses that nobody reads, at the expense of vibrant artists well prepared for a lifetime of creative work?
Idris Murphy | Drawing Breath
Working with monotypes, etchings, drawings and an exciting addition, heliographs, Idris Murphy’s practice is his own multifaceted language that speaks of the land.
Idris Murphy
Your Friend the Enemy – the title of this exhibition – is inspired by a recent discovery of 160 letters written by grandfather Charles Idris Pike.
Idris Murphy Wins 2014 Gallipoli Art Prize
Sydney landscape painter Idris Murphy has won the $20 000 2014 Gallipoli Art Prize with his painting ‘Gallipoli Evening’.
