2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize

Riverdance II

Lesley Murray

Riverdance II, 2023 clay, velvet underglaze, acrylic paint 45 x 45 x 35 cm

'Riverdance II' captures the movement, rhythms, and ephemeral nature of the landscape, and explores the relationship between the landscape, identity, and memories of time and place. Viewed through a non-linear lens the landscape becomes an archive of topography, ecology, history, culture, and mythology; a repository of memory.

Riverdance reflects my pursuit in capturing movement in clay, freedom of form and handmade assemblages which when rearranged reflect changing perspectives and narratives.