Jennifer Murphy’s handcut collage and sculptural assemblages conjure fantastical landscapes and ethereal creatures. Created from secondhand nature books and encyclopedias, the delicate images, pulled together through intuition and whimsy, play on dichotomies between life and death, decay and rebirth, and the cycles of the natural world.
Jennifer Murphy is a Toronto based artist working in collage and mixed media. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including the CAG (Vancouver), The Power Plant (Toronto), White Columns (New York) and the MOCA (Los Angeles). Her work has been written about and published in Canadian Art, the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, N+1, Bad Day, C Magazine, Hunter and Cook, and Millions Magazine among others.She has been nominated three times to the long list of the Sobey Art Award and has received numerous grants and awards. Her work can be found in many public and private collections. She is represented by Clint Roenisch Gallery in Toronto.
