Joanna Murray
‘Windows’ 2025. Oil painting and digital art on acrylic sheets; 9 acrylic sheets: 34.9 x 34.9cm each.
Artist statement
Windows explores transient diasporic identity in the contemporary world as an abstracted narrative realised through intergenerational memories grounded in the architecture of the home. Rooted in the collectivism of domestic familial experiences, the work communicates through an intangible language of cultural connection that transcends space and time. Overlapping translucent geometric forms, drawn from everyday household scenes, mesh aspects of identity, memory, and legacy into an ephemeral harmony passed down through generations.
Each composition serves as a meditation on the intimacy of space, oriented and translated by the lives that move through them.
The geometric shapes function as recurring characters – layered, reconfigured, and reframed – mirroring the ways in which familial narratives intertwine as a collective cultural identity stored in the intangible realm of memory. These enduring, abstracted forms venerate the cultural continuity fostered through community, a window into the cultural narratives of contemporary diaspora healed through memories of home.
Photographs: Anna Kucera
Acknowledgement of Country
аIJʹÙÍø School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
