50 x £50, 2021

“Orla Murray is a London based artist, having recently graduated with a BA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School. Her practice focuses on large scale, figurative oil paintings. Working from a variety of sources including fashion editorials, historical artworks, life, and imagination, the works capture intimate scenarios and aim to create a connection between the artwork and the viewer. They often feel intrusive or voyeuristic, as though the viewer has perhaps been caught peeking at a vulnerable moment, with the distorted figures within the paintings existing as a hybrid of the real and the imagined world. The works take on a partly diaristic format, in that they comment on the artist's own lived experiences, and partly form a larger social commentary, on subjects such as relationships, intimacy, power and desire.”  Lilya Art Gallery 

A work of this size by Orla Murray would usually sell for £250

Accolades
Education: BFA, City & Guilds, 2021
Recent Exhibitions: A Chorus of Bodies, Liliya Art Gallery, 2021
Featured in The Art Gorgeous 

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