Audie Murray
PROJECT
Audie Murray’s readymade sculptures commonly feature found objects and organic materials. By juxtaposing these items, Murray aims to reveal the complexities faced by Indigenous artists as they navigate systems that are often at odds with their values. Akin’s synthetic grass and real roses offer the promise of nature neatly contained in architectural form. While they are bred for uniformity and durability, the roses, in contrast with the artificial turf, deteriorate throughout the exhibition period. Murray retains the fallen petals, which are then collected and processed into pigment for future works, offering regeneration and a second life for the artwork.
ABOUT
Audie Murray is a visual artist whose practice is rooted in process and material intervention. Working across mediums such as beadwork, drawing, media and installation, her engagement with ancestral knowledge systems explores how bodies carry memory, defiance and care, expanding on the multiplicities of contemporary Indigenous life. Murray is Métis and Cree from the Lebret and Meadow Lake communities located on Treaty 4 & 6 territories and is a member of Flying Dust First Nation. She is currently based in oskana kâ-asastêki (Regina, Saskatchewan). Murray holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Regina and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary. She has exhibited widely, including at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada); the Power Station of Art, Shanghai; and the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York (US). In 2024 she was a long-listed artist for the Sobey Art Award and in 2025 she was the recipient of the Ohpinamake Award. Murray is represented by Fazakas Gallery, located on the traditional territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations in Vancouver B.C., Canada.