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Nina Murdoch’s Rockingham Row.

Nina Murdoch travels through South London searching for her subject matter, "mining for light", as she calls it: looking for rare shafts of sunlight that transform from the mundane the city's architectural framework. These light patterns occur all the time, but each one may be an event that happens for only a fleeting moment when the sun is in a particular place. For example, suddenly and for only a few minutes, the sun illuminates the side of a block of flats. People rush through the pools of sunlight in their everyday lives, unaware of how rare an experience it is. Murdoch photographs these elusive moments as a starting point, but primarily uses her memory and imagination to form the basis of her paintings. Nina Murdoch's work has attracted several awards including the Threadneedle Prize in 2008, beating 1,600 fellow artist competitors. To secure the £25,000 award her paintings were considered by panel of jurors (including art critics Richard Cork, Brian Sewell and William Packer and contemporary art dealer Angela Flowers) and by the public in a televised debate. Murdoch is a graduate of the Slade School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. Most recently she was featured in...

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