Tracie murchison biography for kids

Tracie’s work is constructed using her technique of layering silk and paper with wood and combining these materials in unexpected ways to create unique artefacts.

She makes choices of the materials and the finishing to give each piece its own individual identity.

Tracie explores the contradictions of her chosen materials to create texture with colours that contrast with the smooth hard edges of the wood.

Tracie murchison biography for kids

She aims to create work that is tactile and has a sense of ‘erosion’ as a result of time and touch. Tracie uses an eclectic mix of materials and colours and look to artefacts, traditional and contemporary, from around the world for form and stance.

She draws inspiration from the discarded and weather worn fragments of stone, bone and unexpected treasures in our surroundings.

Or from part of an old structure that has countless layers of peeling paint and paper, evidence of the owners t