Artist Profile

Born 1958, Broken Hill, Australia

Lives & Works – Sydney (Eora)

 

Kendal Murray’s miniature sculptures stage dream-like narratives that transport us to a place of wishful thinking, where we are invited to play, imagine, and fantasise about possibilities outside the reality of the everyday. Found objects such as tea cups and saucers, mirrored compacts and grass covered purses are used as eccentric stages for her tiny characters to enact a range of playful and dramatic scenarios. Each tableau vivant in miniature is imbued with social, symbolic and personal meanings that entice us to invest our own desires into the pleasurable outcomes of the stories being told, while offering a mirror to our idiosyncrasies.

 

Murray has had numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and her work is held in public and private collections in Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the UK, New York and Australia, including the Powerhouse Museum, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, University of Western Sydney, University of New South Wales and the Commonwealth Bank Collection. She has been the recipient of several awards including the Deakin Small Sculpture Prize (2015) and the Beowulf Award in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2015). Her work has also been selected as finalist multiple times in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (2023, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2004, 2001). She holds an MA (Hons) in Visual Art.

Exhibitions
Available Works
  • Kendal Murray, Day Away, Cat's at Play, 2024
    Kendal Murray
    Day Away, Cat's at Play, 2024
    mixed media assemblage with tea set
    33.5 x 19 x 16 cm, 51 x 28 x 28 cm (display)
    $9,500
  • Kendal Murray, Keen Eyed Applied, Hillside Confide, 2024
    Kendal Murray
    Keen Eyed Applied, Hillside Confide, 2024
    mixed media assemblage with tea set
    31.5 x 20.5 x 19 cm, 49 x 30.5 x 29 cm (display)
    $8,990
  • Kendal Murray, Go, Slow, With Gusto, 2024
    Kendal Murray
    Go, Slow, With Gusto, 2024
    mixed media assemblage with tea set
    34 x 20 x 20 cm, 51 x 30 x 30 cm (display)
    $8,990
  • Kendal Murray, Days Appraise, Gaze, Amaze, 2023
    Kendal Murray
    Days Appraise, Gaze, Amaze, 2023
    mixed media assemblage with tea set
    28 x 19 x 19 cm, 45 x 29 x 29 cm (display)
    $8,990
  • Kendal Murray, High Time, Summertime, 2024
    Kendal Murray
    High Time, Summertime, 2024
    mixed media assemblage with tea set
    34 x 15 x 15 cm, 51.5 x 24 x 23 cm (display)
    $7,990
  • Kendal Murray, Open Air, Fan Fare, 2024
    Kendal Murray
    Open Air, Fan Fare, 2024
    mixed media assemblage with tea set
    38 x 17 x 12 cm, 55 x 27 x 22 cm (display)
    $7,990
  • Kendal Murray, Hello! Hello! Hello!, 2023
    Kendal Murray
    Hello! Hello! Hello!, 2023
    mixed media assemblage with tea set
    22 x 18 x 14 cm, 39 x 28 x 24 cm (display)
    $6,990
  • Kendal Murray, Trustees, Gentle Breeze, 2023
    Kendal Murray
    Trustees, Gentle Breeze, 2023
    mixed media assemblage with tea set
    33 x 16 x 10.5 cm, 53 x 26 x 21 cm (display)
    $6,990
  • Kendal Murray, Summer Days, Colourways, 2025
    Kendal Murray
    Summer Days, Colourways, 2025
    mixed media assemblage with purse
    13 x 14 x 14 cm, 28 x 23 x 25 cm (wall hung display)
    $5,000
  • Kendal Murray, Tried and True, Point of View, 2025
    Kendal Murray
    Tried and True, Point of View, 2025
    mixed media assemblage with purse
    16 x 17 x 15 cm, 30 x 26 x 26 cm (wall hung display)
    $5,000
  • Kendal Murray, Heart to Heart, Head Start, 2023
    Kendal Murray
    Heart to Heart, Head Start, 2023
    mixed media assemblage
    11.5 x 14 x 16 cm, 29 x 24 x 26 cm (display)
    $5,000
  • Kendal Murray, Eye on Sky, By the Bye, 2024
    Kendal Murray
    Eye on Sky, By the Bye, 2024
    mixed media assemblage with purse
    11 x 13 x 16 cm, 27 x 22.5 x 21.5 (wall hung display)
    $4,500
  • Kendal Murray, Open Air, Double Dare, 2023
    Kendal Murray
    Open Air, Double Dare, 2023
    mixed media assemblage with purse
    10.5 x 15 x 16 cm, 28 x 25 x 26 cm (free standing display)
    $4,500
  • Kendal Murray, Day Out, Stake Out, 2022
    Kendal Murray
    Day Out, Stake Out, 2022
    mixed media assemblage
    11.5 x 12.5 x 11.5 cm, 28 x 23 x 26 cm (display)
    $4,500
  • Kendal Murray, Bamboo Rendezvous, 2019
    Kendal Murray
    Bamboo Rendezvous, 2019
    mixed media assemblage with tea cup
    15 x 12.5 x 12.5 cm, 27 x 22.5 x 22.5 cm (dispaly)
    $3,500
  • Kendal Murray, Swim, Whim, Synonym, 2025
    Kendal Murray
    Swim, Whim, Synonym, 2025
    mixed media assemblage within metal compact
    8 x 7.5 x 8 cm, 15 x 5 x 17 cm (wall hung display)
    $2,600
  • Kendal Murray, Exhibition, Transmission, Ambition Commission, 2022
    Kendal Murray
    Exhibition, Transmission, Ambition Commission, 2022
    mixed media assemblage
    9 x 8.5 x 9 cm, 15 x 15 x 17 cm (display)
    $2,600
  • Kendal Murray, Wise Guys, Surprise, Surprise!, 2021
    Kendal Murray
    Wise Guys, Surprise, Surprise!, 2021
    mixed media assemblage
    8 x 7.5 x 8 cm, 15 x 15 x 17 cm (display)
    $2,600
  • Kendal Murray, Out of the Pond, James Bond, 2022
    Kendal Murray
    Out of the Pond, James Bond, 2022
    mixed media assemblage
    6 x 5 x 6 cm, 15 x 15 x 17 cm (display)
    $2,400
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