Imagining The Self

The exhibition "Imagining the Self" comprised a body of sculptural artworks that explored the way psychological experiences are expressed through the body and how those physical experiences are represented in the creation of the "social" subject.

The artwork "Catwalk" looks at the way the body is metaphorically idealized with notions of beautification from the culture to which it belongs. The stainless steel used in these artworks has a reflective surface that invites you to touch it, which then repels you with its cool clinical quality, simultaneously exposing both the alluring, entrapping and empowering processes of beautification.

Kendal Murray, 2015

Mirror, Mirror

Stainless steel
7.4cm x 27cm x 30cm

• Sydney Contemporary 2023

• Imagined Worlds 2023

• In the Smile of a Tree 2022

• Interconnected 2022

• Summertime, Pantomime 2021

• Renewal 2020

• Material Properties 2019

• Sydney Contemporary 2019

• Reflections of a Fading a Sky 2019

• Afterglow, Adagio 2018

• Blue Bird, Overheard 2018

• Show and Tell 2016

• Between Rhyme and Reason 2015

• The Collector 2014

• Flights Of Fancy 2012

• Stage Whispers 2011

• Imagining The Self 2010

• Short Stories and Tall Tales 2009

• An Enchanted Life 2007

• Walking Sideways And Smiling 2003

• In Search Of Childish Pleasures 2001

• Night Fictions 2000

• Every Day Dreams 1999

• Secret Histories 1998

• She Starts By Removing Her Face 1997

• Circulatory Pleasures 1996

• Compulsive Beauty 1995