Associate Artist
Ruan Murphy (Roo-uhn Muh-fee, they / them) is a self-taught printmaker and socially engaged artist/facilitator. Their work commonly explores themes around social justice, community activism and place, taking inspiration from folk/outsider art and modern protest art. More recently, they have started exploring my own experiences of chronic illness, neurodiversity and gender/queerness and the broader social contexts these exist within.
They say ‘Inseparable from my individual practice, I am passionate about creating art collaboratively and have facilitated participatory projects in a wide range of community settings. I am an advocate of wonky art and a firm believer that there is no such thing as bad drawing. Having worked on a wide range of projects with both younger and older participants, I am really excited to expand my practice with Magic Me through exploring what happens when different generations are brought together. I am keen to pull apart and challenge ideas about what intergenerational work looks like and also just have fun and explore different materials with people.’
