It is no accident that Susie MacMurray’s Ostrich feather creations often come in pairs. The fragility of ‘Duo’ (2020), suspended on wire and sequestered in a perspex box, is offset by the fishing hooks and wax around which they are arranged. ‘Duo’, not unlike MacMurray’s large-scale work ‘Murmur’ (2020), plays with this contrast: a beautiful object, revealed to be not quite as it seems.

Susie MacMurray is a British artist whose work includes drawing, sculpture and site-specific architectural installations. A former classical musician, she retrained as an artist, graduating with an MA in Fine Art in 2001. She lives in Manchester and has an international exhibition profile, showing regularly in the USA and Europe as well as in public institutions around the UK. Her work can be found in a number of prestigious museum and private collections and MacMurray has in August 2021 completed her most recent public commission ‘Witness’ at the National Justice Museum, Nottingham.