Wendy McMurdo
14 July – 28 August 2004

A solo exhibition of work by Wendy McMurdo, one of Scotland’s leading contemporary artists, working in the field of photography and digital media. This was the first solo presentation of her work in Scotland since 1995, despite her prolific inclusion in group exhibitions and public collections throughout the UK and overseas.

The exhibition consisted of nine images from a series of images of children at play or learning. McMurdo’s images hover between fact and fiction, representing moments of play or reverie where children are isolated from the adult world.  She combines traditional photography and digital technology to create a deliberately out of sorts space that acts as a psychological imprint of childhood memory.  The work references conventions in historical portrait painting and has the formal look of dramatic set pieces, while the images are manipulated using digital techniques in order to focus on the emotional aspect of the subject, deliberately removing or emphasising certain elements to undermine the apparent objectivity of the photographic image.

Exhibition supported by Scottish Arts Council


Wendy McMurdo, Sabin Brothers, 2004