| Summary: | 'Hyperborean Tales' Exhibition at Switchback Gallery, Federation University Australia, Gippsland Campus; 6th October - 5th November 2015. Jennifer Murray is a Masters candidate at Federation University’s Gippsland Centre for Art and Design and a painter of miniature images. Her Masters project explores the imagery of cold climates, focussing on places in the Arctic Circle. During her candidacy she undertook a residency at Skagestrond in Northwest Iceland, painting onsite out of an old converted fish warehouse and experiencing directly the visual and cultural effects of the cold climate. The result is an intriguing set of miniature paintings, which reveal the otherworldliness of our planet’s ultra-cold places. Murray is an admirer of Persian and Victorian miniature painting. The small scale meshes with the claustrophobic nature of cold climate living and these works illuminate what it is in cold places that adds new visual and cultural understandings about place. Image: Jennifer Murray, Hyperborean Tales, 8cm x 6cm (from Blue Series), 2011,acrylic on Lanaquarelle paper.
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