Poet & Painter ...

 

Working across artistic disciplines, writer and painter, Anna Murchison, was the recipient of the ACU Prize for Poetry in 2021 for Child of Gath-hepher; Anna was again shortlisted for the ACU Prize in 2022 for Welcome to the Cupola and in 2023 for Remedies for stillness, an unlikely dedication, and Love in the form of a season.

 

Anna was recently shortlisted for one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, the Bridport Prize, for The Tree Line and The Gospel According to Luke.

 

She has previously been shortlisted for the Grieve Prize (of love & physics) and the Tasmanian Writers' Prize for one of her early experimental short stories, Sienna. Her first narrative poem, The Story of Us, was shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize in 2017.

 

Anna’s visual arts practice now runs on ‘parallel tracks’ with her literary practice, each informing the other such that relational dynamics can be observed across both disciplines.

 

Metaphysical and spiritual dimensions move through her artmaking and onto the canvas where held and evolving responses to space, place & sentience become form and formlessness. Her method is to work intuitively and spontaneously to produce highly textural and multi-layered (mostly) landscape and seascape abstractions.

 

Anna lives with her partner, Aaron, on a beautiful, loosely forested property in Mayanup (just outside Boyup Brook) where she welcomes visitors to her studio for a cuppa and a chat.

 

Visitor information:

Look out for the vineyard on approach (and possibly some nosey alpacas) if coming along Boyup Brook-Cranbrook Rd from Boyup Brook or if turning right at the end of Winnejup Road. The vineyard and house are visible from the road on the right, 4.9 kilometres along from the Winnejup Rd intersection. If coming from the other direction you will see a glimpse of the house and the Curlew Estate sign adjacent to the gates.