Brett Murray

Brett Murray is a white South African artist mostly known for his steel and mixed media wall sculptures. He was born in Pretoria, South Africa. Murray has a masters degree in fine art from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, 1989. Referred to by critic Brenda Atkinson as the dark prince of South African pop , Murray is one of the countrys most popular artists, often using easily recognisable media images with the addition of a subversive and bitterly funny twist. Murrays work addresses the wars of the cultures, the clash between Afrocentrism and Eurocentrism, the old and the new South Africas. With my work I hope to critically entertain. Through satirical and tragic reflections on South Africa, I hope to shift peoples perspectives and change peoples minds, indulgent, arrogant and pretentious as this might sound, he says. More recently, his work has explored his own personal experiences and identity. Murray was also the founder of the sculpture department at Stellenbosch University.

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