EXHIBITION: SCULPTURE AS PERFORMANCE
Melissa Pierce Murray
Sunday 29 November – Tuesday 1 December
Open 11am-5pm daily
Cambridge Artworks and Artspace
5 Green’s Road, Cambridge CB4 3EF
Bringing together large floor-standing works, performance photography and wall-mounted pewter casts, this exhibition offers an insight into a practice that combines sculpture, movement, narrative and participation. Melissa is currently developing interactive works for an experimental theatre production, extending her exploration of how sculptural forms can create dynamic encounters between artwork and audience.
A unique opportunity to meet the artist, discover the making process and experience the work in action.
Exhibition events include:
Sunday: Pewter Casting Demonstrations 12-2pm, Sculpture in Action 3-5pm
Monday: Coffee and Conversation 11am-2pm, Performance 7.30pm
Tuesday: Pewter Casting Workshops 11am-3pm
Exhibition Events link: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/sculpture-as-performance-exhibition-events-4885064
For more information visit https://melissapmurray.com and https://www.cambridgeartworks.com
and follow @melissapiercemurray and @cambridge.artworks on Instagram.
Artist Statement
Melissa Pierce Murray’s sculptural practice explores ways meaning emerges through encounters between people, materials and place. Often participatory or performative, her work brings together sculpture, movement, narrative and dialogue to create experiences that are both inviting and unsettling. She frequently collaborates with artists, scientists and researchers, and works across a range of media, including stone, steel, bronze, plaster, glass and ice. Informed by interests in literature, physics, embodied experience and nature, her practice investigates how objects, materials and exchange can deepen our awareness of our place in the world.
Melissa (member, Royal Society of Sculptors) has presented work extensively across the UK and Internationally including: The Laundrette, Bristol 2026; Cambridge Junction, 2025; Wakefield Cathedral, 2022; University College, Oxford, 2019-20; and Mestizajes International Conference on Art, Literature and Science, Spain, 2021. Melissa holds a BA (English Literature, Physics, University of Colorado) and MA Fine Arts (Norwich University of the Arts, U.K).
For exhibition events, view Eventbrite link
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/sculpture-as-performance-exhibition-events-4885064
