Adrienne Murray explores themes of disconnect, environment and embodiment as she aims to highlight the importance of sensory experience as being part of a poetry which can only be perceived through an awareness of the body’s relationship with space. Working primarily with sound and sculpture, she often employs sparse visuals and negative space to evoke tension, fragility and precarity. In doing so, she intends to convey these elements as markers of the human experience.
Porcelain megaphone sculptures, fragile and precariously out in the open, contain roots cut from trees which fell in past storms. The accompanying audio contains ambient noise such as bird song, the interaction of rain against a window, and faraway noise from cars, which are then layered with the sounds of hand drumming on wooden tables and chairs. Eventually vocal sounds of humming and harmonised melodies surface, evoking environmental perceptions of closeness and distance. Together, the work suggests at the things in life which are difficult to express through words.
