Unlike previous lecturers, I have had luck of having been taught by Pru Murphy last year. However, seeing Pru give a lecture in this manner, opposed to the less formal tutorial last year, was quite different to what I was used to, but a great chance to learn about someone, and their work, who had taught me.
Initially I was sceptical with the lecture starting about Muybridge’s ‘The Horse in Motion’, worried that it would be more of history lecture, however it was a beautiful lead in to her early works, and was a very obvious and important influence on her art practice. Without recounting each series, it was fascinating to see the progression in an artists work from a uni student, to a full time artist, to a mother. Each of these life phases were reflected in her works, particularly that of motherhood in her past three series. Pru was generous enough to show us works in development for a show that would open this June/July. Although I did not take interest to these latest works as I did to her previous series, it did lead to an interesting discussion. The works showed young boys playing with guns or various objects that could in anyway represent a gun. From this, discussion grew as to whether parents should or should not let their children play in such objects, like most discussions of this nature, it finished unresolved, however, the work Pru had created did what it set out to do, that is, get the discussion going.
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