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Liz is using her professional background as a doctor, in conjunction with her life experiences living with autoimmune disease to use art to address inequalities in health.
A new collection due to debut Summer 2024. Taking inspiration from an influential moment in art,but challenging the patriarchal narrative. In this collection, Liz Murray challenges Mondrian’s reductionist approach of art and society by adopting a Mondrian-esque style while breaking conventional rules. Through her artwork, she aims to address the absence of female influence in art history and promote diversity by exploring diverse body forms and rebelliously using non-pure primary pigments. By challenging the foundations of abstract art dominated by a male perspective, Liz Murray encourages new voices and ideas to refine artistic foundations and promote inclusivity and diversity in the art world.
Liz founded the National art campaign Mortal And Strong(TM). A charitable project shining the spotlight on women facing their own mortality - those affected at a young age by a life changing illness of disease. Liz is directing and presenting the project whilst inviting other artists and health advocates to use art to raise awareness as well as fundraising for charities. To learn more about the project click below.
Scars of Gold is a photography collection inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi. Liz developed the concept of using gold leaf to capture scars both visible and invisible in a powerful series to empower and emphasise strength to overturn the taboos surrounding disease and disability. Working with photographer Sammy Weston, Liz his directing this series as part of the Mortal And Strong campaign which aims to exhibit in March 2025.
Liz, 35 from Norfolk UK, was born in the North East of England. Due to pursuing a degree in Medicine to become a doctor, Liz received no formal training in Art. However, was taught by her Grandfather, formerly an art teacher and artist of premier league football paintings, along with her father who was a successful freelance artist. Liz qualified as a doctor in 2011 when she moved to Norfolk and began selling large-scale acrylic landscapes and figurative pieces on Artfinder.
In 2016 Liz took a break from working as a doctor in Emergency Medicine. A combination of fertility issues, being diagnosed with Lupus and time pressures meant Liz took the opportunity for a break from the stethoscope to concentrate on the canvas. 2016 saw her launch LALOA (Live A Life of Art), a lifestyle brand of fine art and homeware celebrating country animals and tweed. The brand complimented her debut fine art collection of limited edition giclee watercolours - The Quintessential Country...in Wellies. So named because of the niche combination of painting country animals donning tweed flat caps and wellington boots. The collection quickly found international collectors.
2016-2018 Liz exhibited her collection at a number of British Country Estates, including with Country Living at The Game Fair, Ragley Hall and was featured in multiple magazines and seen in Vogue, World of Interiors and Country Living magazines. In 2018 Liz began to venture with her own gallery in Burnham Market, but following the premature and complicated birth of her son, followed quickly by the Covid-19 pandemic it was time for the paintbrushes to take a rest.
Liz returned to her scrubs and stethoscope in 2020 to work as an Emergency Medicine SpR during the pandemic. During this time Liz quickly found her muse changing to a more serious note after being profoundly affected by the pandemic. Liz's first public sculpture 'Fighting For Life' was a Finalist in the Visual Art Open Exhibition 2020. A combination of barbed wire and torn face masks was to depict the war scene and fragility of the PPE against what felt like an endless battle against an unseen force.
In 2022 Liz released the collection; People Bleed. A series of oil paintings using the egg as a symbol of fertility, motherhood and fragility. Liz drew upon her own experiences of pregnancy loss, premature birth and sexual discrimination to begin a collection to try to address the gender inequalities in health and society. Completing in 2023, the collection won an award for Curator's Choice for Women Bleed. The collection addressed fertility issues and loss and was a raw surrealism collection putting the spotlight on important health issues.
In 2023 Liz retired from a clinical facing role to formally work as a Professional Artist. 2023 saw Liz Longlisted for prestigious exhibitions such as the Visual Artists Association Professional Artist Award, Visual Art Open and a prize winning finalist in the Doncaster Art Fair. In 2023 Liz also appeared as a Wilcard in the SKY ARTS TV programme Landscape Artist of The Year. Her freelance illustration work continues and is set to release a number of children's books in 2023/2024.
In 2024 Liz launched the national campaign mortal And Strong. Liz developed the concept for this after suffering multiple miscarriages in 2019. Since then Liz began doing research into how to produce a charitable project that uses art on a large scale to produce something significant and influential. Alongside directing the project, Liz is also releasing her latest collection 'Challenging The Foundations' - a Mondrian-inspired collection challenging the absence of female voices in art.
BBC The Big Event 2005
Liz was an artist in collaboration for a public filming in Trafalgar Square live.
Country Living, The Game Fair Ragley Hall
BBC Pointless - winner 2015
Visual Art Open Shortlisted 2018,2019,2022
Visual Art Open Finalist 2020 - Exhibition
Doncaster Art Fair - Art as a Response to Mental Health, Finalist & Curator's Choice Prize 2023
Sky Arts Landscape Artist Of The Year 2023 Wildcard - Hever Castle
Doncaster Art Fair Finalist 2023
Visual Art Open - Longlisted 2023
Visual Artists Association - Professional Artist Award - Longlisted 2023
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