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Artist-led tour and demonstrations with Phil and Marg Murray

When

Sunday 8 June 2025

12.00pm - 1.00pm

Where

Murray Art Museum Albury

Price

Free. Please register.

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Composite image. Light ochre colored background with four circle containing images, Circles placed bottom left and top right contain black and white headshots, Two circles placed more centrally containing images of art works. Bottom left circle has a headshot of a man with a grey beard. He is wearing a black shirt and is smiling. Top right circle has a The woman has a headshot of a woman with long dark curly hair. she is looking to her right. She is wearing a black jacket and a leopard print scarf. One large circular earing is partially showing on her left ear beneath her hair. The left center circle conatins an image of two coolamon on stands made of blackened logs. The right center image is of three woven baskets suspended against a light coloured wall. The closest basket has emu feathers decorating it.

Join Phil and Marg Murray for a tour of their current exhibition Embracing our journey: A celebration of family and culture, followed by a demonstration of Phil’s woodwork practice.

About the artists

Phil Murray is an artist and woodworker of the Yorta Yorta Nation, based in Albury.

His wood carving is intrinsically linked to his cultural identity and the long-established tool making work of First Nations people in South-East Australia.

Marg Murray is a weaver and proud Maraura – Barkindji woman. As an artist she deeply involved in community, sharing cultural knowledge, and building networks and services for future generations. Weaving has become an integral part of her life and an artistic practice that sustains her relationship to culture and community.

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