{"id":34914,"date":"2019-11-13T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=34914"},"modified":"2019-11-12T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T04:51:12","slug":"jennifer-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/13\/jennifer-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"jennifer murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=34916\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34916\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/JenniferMurphy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"8541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/JenniferMurphy-1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/JenniferMurphy-1-70x1024.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh. My. This is the large-scale collage work of Canadian artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/me.and.melie\/\">Jennifer Murphy<\/a>. All of these stunning pieces were in a show, titled\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clintroenisch.com\/archive\/2019-2\/in-the-shadow-of-sirius\/\">In The Shadow of Sirius<\/a>, that (unfortunately) just came down from the walls of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clintroenisch.com\/\">Clint Roenisch Gallery<\/a> in Toronto. To make up for my tardiness, let me give you Jennifer&#8217;s beautiful words about this body of work&#8230; words that certainly hit home for me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAlthough I have worked in collage since I was a child, I really began to explore large-scale, sculptural collage after the death of a dear friend and close collaborator ten\u00a0years ago. The work was a way to cope with the grief but also an outlet to hope. This series comes at another time of loss, both personal and I believe collective. We now\u00a0live in a time of ecological mourning and are in desperate need for paths to rediscover hope.\u00a0<\/em><br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/><em>I began this work thinking about The Tommy Thompson Park and the Leslie Spit here in Toronto. This dump site of rubble and rebar on the shores of Lake Ontario,\u00a0this \u201caccidental wilderness\u201d of trees, wildflowers, lagoons and submerged reefs.\u00a0\u00a0This decades-old landfill, re-activated habitat to migrating and mating birds and\u00a0insects, amphibians and mammals.\u00a0I gravitated to thinking about shore birds and waders, those stilt like birds astride that liminal space between earth, air and water.\u00a0<\/em><br class=\"\" \/><br class=\"\" \/><em>I find hope in making my work and in places of ruin where wildflowers grow, and in the poetry of those who have felt immense loss but continue to create.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Sigh.<\/em> Poetry, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh. My. This is the large-scale collage work of Canadian artist Jennifer Murphy. All of these stunning pieces were in a show, titled\u00a0In The Shadow of Sirius, that (unfortunately) just came down from the walls of the\u00a0Clint Roenisch Gallery in Toronto. To make up for my tardiness, let me give you Jennifer&#8217;s beautiful words about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6,185],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34917,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34914\/revisions\/34917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}