Ro Murray

This work has developed from installations last year with my creative partner Mandy Burgess, about the regent honeyeater.

In LOST SONG at Blue Mountains Cultural Centre December 2022, we installed charcoal wall drawings of glyphs translating the spectrographs of the regent song. The species is now near extinction, once they were part of large nomadic flocks from South Australia to Queensland, now there is estimated 300 in the wild. The mating song is taught to by the older males to the younger males.
These pianola rolls were inherited from my parents. They are imbedded with perforations to play songs.

Black, grey, white, and gold are the colours of the regent honeyeater.