Jamie Murphy

Jamie’s practice explores how memory fragments, shifts, and slowly fades across generations. Rooted in reflections on cognitive deterioration and the instability of personal history, the work combines natural-fibre weaving with cyanotype imagery to reconstruct the presence of a person shaped by absence and loss. The work considers how identity is carried, altered, and eventually eroded over time.

The woven structures act as vessels where different pasts intertwine and merge into the present, holding traces of inherited experiences and fragile connections. Through the cyanotype process, the images remain vulnerable to light and time, gradually fading as the work continues to exist. This slow disappearance mirrors the erosion of memory within the mind itself, where remembrance becomes unstable and incomplete.

Observers are invited to take a seat within the space and observe these fragments of memory as they shift and disappear over time. At its core, the work reflects on loss, fragility, connection, and most importantly, remembrance– the remembrance of those we can no longer fully hold memories of. It also considers the fragmented and differing perspectives that multiple people can carry of one singular person. Balancing permanence and decay, the work invites reflection on the fragile nature of memory and human identity.