Notes

Murray renders himself up as the Oros Man, or the Oros Man as a site for himself. The Oros Man – first exhibited on the X-Words show organised by artist Malcolm Payne in Cape Town in April – is made out of fragments of orange perspex held together by a lattice-work of metal strips in a kind of stained glass window arrangement. Only, the framing strips are themselves arranged in the most mechanically executed of Ndebele designs. ...

Murray works pre-eminently with received imagery, borrowed from its original context and made ironical by the way it is redirected and refocused. ¹

1. Ivor Powell,' Further Adventures of the Oros Man: Notes on Recent Works by Brett Murray', Ventilator: A South African Magazine for the Arts, No. 1 September 1994, page 57 - 59

Literature

Ventilator, No 1, September 1994, page 57 , illustrated