Susie MacMurray’s practice encompasses drawing, sculpture, performance and architectural installations. A former classical musician she retrained as an artist, graduating with an MA in Fine Art in 2001.

An engagement with materials is central to MacMurray’s practice. Her role is one of alchemist; combining material, form and context in deceptively simple ways to stimulate associations within the viewers’ minds and to elicit nuanced meanings.

Working in installation and sculpture she has gained a reputation for site-specific interventions in historic spaces. Her work frequently references the history of a space and seeks to merge the particularities of that history, the specifics of site, and the meanings of materials in an attempt to gain insight into the relationship between place and people.

Drawing is also an important part of MacMurray’s practice In addition to her large scale pen & ink work she extends the possibilities of the medium by making drawings using unconventional materials including rubber tubing, hair and wax. Her sculptural rubber wall pieces and hair drawings are formal explorations of working with mark-making and line in materials that continue to maintain their own physical references.

Most recently MacMurray has been looking at the convention of momento mori, using the medium of the photogram to explore her ongoing interest in memory and transience.