As part of a series of short summer exhibitions, DRAW Space is thrilled to present Murray+Burgess / POTENCY.
Opening Thursday 22 January, 6-8pm. Please join the artists and the DRAW Space community to celebrate this exceptional exhibition.
Ro Murray and Mandy Burgess are two art-collaborators working from Durag and Gundungurra country in Mt Victoria, who became artists late after careers and families. Both were impacted by powerful exhibitions of the work of Louise Bourgeois, Phyllida Barlow and Emily Kam Kngwarray.
In POTENCY Murray and Burgess present an installation of drawings of older Australian female artists who challenge society’s assumptions about productivity in later life: they are powerful role models for all female artists. Accompanying the portraits are drawings of the Regent Honeyeater and yellow ply glyphs of its translated birdsong, connecting this work with an ongoing project on the endangered bird. Murray and Burgess celebrate the potency of these older female artists: both the birds and the women are in full flight.
Murray and Burgess, SCOOP, 2025, charcoal, ink on paper, acrylic on plywood, 150 x 1100 cm