Murray Fredericks
“Salt (Eyre)”

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Medium
Pigment print on cotton

Dimensions
120 x 150cm

Description
Murray Fredericks (1970 – ) was born in Sydney, Australia. He studied politics and economics at Sydney University. Following his undergraduate degree, he spent five years traveling in the Middle East and in the Himalaya. The experience of spending large amounts of time in these ‘powerful’ locations provided the basis for his approach to his photography. Fredericks’s work is derived from a perspective that views culture as something that cannot be wholly
accounted for through social construct. It’s a view that sees some values as derived from a ‘time-less essence’. The work attempts to represent the experience when thought is temporarily suspended and the mind encounters ‘other’.

His works have been exhibited internationally including at the Louvre as part of Paris Photo, in Shanghai and around Australia.