Yarn and Wax: Ellie Murphy

Artist Statement:

I like exploring the relationship of personal and cultural nostalgia in subject matter, material, and method. My work straddles the line between childhood and adulthood while questioning the borders of fine art and traditional craft forms. In these encaustic and fiber pieces I am trying to make a physical picture of the rhythm and repetition at the heart of ordinary life. My art also combines references to doll hair, crafts, folk motifs and Americana from my 1970’s childhood here in Kansas. I see interdependence between the multiplicities of cultures in our world and make sculpture as a way of recognizing and playing with the unintended and humorous connections between them.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website