NB VOL 2 | “A stranger walked into a room. And found a mirror.”
What happens when you step out of your own space?
In The Ghost in the Studio, photographer @ryanmurphystudio enters @bybraddock ’s studio alone. No brief. No direction.
He photographs what’s there.
What comes back feels less like documentation than something else.
A record. A trace. A kind of evidence.
Braddock reads the images back, trying to understand what they reveal – about authorship, control, and the stories we tell ourselves about our own work.
Read more at the link in our bio.
Some works from Allegory of Perth (2020–2024) will be at @lawsonflats this month.
I’ve largely kept my art practice separate from my commercial work. Quiet. Private. So this feels like a kind of coming out – of sorts.
I didn’t set out to make a body of work. These came out of a period where things narrowed, and I found myself looking more closely at the place I’ve grown up in – and my place within it.
They felt like fragments at the time. Only now, seeing them together, they read as something more intentional.
Lawson Flats feels like a fitting place for them to sit. A space shaped by its own history of access and exclusion, privilege and proximity – not separate from the stories in the work, but part of the same fabric.
If you’re there, have a look.
I’m indebted to @_greennatalie_ and @marissaglas for making me do it and to the @column.au twins @s._langley and @deborahthomas____ for the inspiration via @notes_on_block and to @tanyasim for allowing me the space to do this over the last five years and more.
Portrait shot by @ryanmurphystudio
