Eileen Murray
— Eileen Murray —
Artist Statement
“My paintings and ceramics flirt with the line between fine art and decoration, using both trending and vintage colours, patterns, and objects that evoke the quotidian, the nostalgic, and the ritual aspects of domestic space. In my practice, I explore feelings of self reflection, inner emotional well being, absence, presence, emptiness and memory.
The idea of home is a charged concept - for some they are spaces of refuge and a threshold of security, for others they are places of violence and confinement. I began exploring these multiple readings of home early in my artistic practice and manipulated the domestic space using visual disruptions such as veils, blurring, abstraction, and perspectival manipulations. I manifested ideas of intrusion, belonging, secrecy, and self-protection. Many years later, these intentions have grown towards navigating solitude, loss and acceptance”.
Eileen Murray holds a B.F.A with Great Distinction from the University of Lethbridge (2005), and an M.F.A Painting & Photography from the University of Saskatchewan (2012). She is currently represented across Canada and her paintings are in numerous public and private collections in Canada, the U.S., the UK and Mexico.
