who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Stuart Murray
United Kingdom
Keywords samizdat, zine, selfpublishing
Chris Murray
Keywords comics, graphic novels,
film, word and image
Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 8.3, 267-281.
Stuart Murray, like many modern artists, has two bases, spending his
time between The Calton and Dennistoun. He finds this arrangement
extremely stimulating. His drawings are remarkable for sharp-eyed and
witted vignettes focusing on the ruminations of the folk encountered in
daily life. These pointed renderings depict homelessness and begging,
menial jobs, drinking and pub culture. His more recent volumes are
marked by a melancholic minimal graphic handling and point-of-view
shots of real people. Murray graduated with a BA in Printmaking from
the Glasgow School of Art in 2000. Murray has published many of his
own books of drawings and more recently has been published by
Trajectory, Street Level and Tramway.Exhibitions include Stuart
Murray, Jerwood Artists Platform, Cell Project Space, London (2007),
Alasdair Gray & Stuart Murray, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh (2006),
second International Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest (2006) and
Stuka Do Kupiena, Galeria Sheik Yerbouti, Krakow, Poland (2004–
2005).
› Hampstead Revisited, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 2.3, 301-325.
Chris Murray's research interests are in comics, film and popular
culture, specifically the theorization of how popular visual culture
relates to other discourses (literature, art, and politics). Dr Murray has
published on various aspects of comics, including: the relationship
between American superhero comics, popular culture and propaganda
during World War Two; the comics of Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and
Grant Morrison; Independent/small press comics (mini-comics) and
British comics, specifically DC Thomson.Chris is editor (along with Dr
Julia Round) of the Intellect comics journal, Studies in Comics. He is
Secretary of the Scottish Word and Image Group, which researches
aspects of the relationship between verbal and visual representation.
› EDITORIAL, Studies in Comics, 1.1, 3-5.
› Editorial, Studies in Comics, 1.2, 189-190.
› Interview with The Magus, Studies in Comics, 2.1, 7-19.