Ingleby | Craig Murray-Orr | NEW PAINTINGS & OLD SCULPTURE

The exhibition is hosted at: gallery 5, Cromwell Place, 4 Cromwell Place, London, SW7 2JE, during Frieze week 2022.

Murray-Orr’s new paintings will be joined by a series of sculptures from found wooden objects – faces from chair seats and sinuous body forms from a discarded crutch and a bentwood chair frame. These curiously anthropomorphic and deeply characterful objects appear to inhabit a very different world from the paintings and yet seem connected by a sense of memory, personality and a loving touch. It’s from this place of emotional intimacy that Murray-Orr’s quietly assertive works emerge from the edge of abstraction.

A new book Thirty Paintings will be published to coincide with the exhibition and will be available from the gallery from 1^st October.

"Much of my early life was spent in mountainous, isolated regions, places of massive beauty that brought with them an awareness of vulnerability and the need for self-reliance, instilling a love of wilderness, and providing an emotive base for much of my later work. Living in London plays a significant role in my practice as an artist: the city separates me from the landscape, but the excitement of wilderness remains, allowing me to imagine and invent, rather than to observe and copy. Simplicity, universality, monumentality, and a sense of solitude are the essential ingredients I seek, not place. These images do not describe any particular geography but remind me of the emotions I felt in many."
- CMO

INGLEBY will be at gallery 5, 4 Cromwell Place, London, SW7 2JE

11^th – 16^th October

Tuesday – Saturday 10am-6pm

Sunday 11am-4pm