Kate Murphy

The note

12 March – 17 April 2010

10 minute video installation at Breenspace

"A work about remembrance, mortality and loss" Rachel Kent, senior curator of the MCA, in conversation with Kate this Sat 3pm as part of the new venture Art Month Sydney .

The note is based on a relative's suicide letter that is transformed into a truely beautiful musical composition by Basil Hogios. When you enter the darkened space you end up standing behind a lone woman who addresses an empty theatre singing her goodbyes to family and friends. The final performance. A deeply sad but necessary work for I believe that our society does not deal at all well with the process of loss. There should be room for grief to be shared and expressed without shame and art is a perfect place. Strangely but in sync, I am involved in a couple of art collaborations that are about death ....

Sent off today a fairly conservative watercolour study (I get way too uptight when rushed), Lady Gouldian (endangered) my contribution to 'A Book About Death' an international art project that will be held at The Tabernacle, Museum of Modern Art Wales. 27 April - 8 May.

And well organized by Sonja Benskin Mesher, there are links for viewing the many works via facebook and for the history of the project there is a book about death blog.