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35 51 Brett Murray . The president . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010 Silkscreen Edition: 7/22 + 1 AP 100 x 70 cm Estimate: R 9 500 – R 10 500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brett Murray was awarded his MFA degree at UCT in 1989, receiving numerous awards and scholarships during his studies. He has exhibited extensively in South Africa and abroad, including numerous solo shows, representation at the Cuban Biennial of 1994, the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Germany and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile. He was also part of the travelling show Liberated Voices, Contemporary Art From South Africa which opened at the Museum for African Art in New York in 1998. His work formed part of the shows Min(d)fields , Kunsthaus in Baselland, Switzerland (2004) and The Geopolitics of Animation , Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain (2007). He won the Cape Town Urban Art competition in 1998, which resulted in the public work Africa , a 3.5 metre bronze sculpture, erected in CapeTown’s city centre. Other competitions and 52 Brett Murray . The Struggle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2010 Silkscreen Edition: 8/22 + 1 AP 100 x 70 cm Estimate: R 9 500 – R10 500 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . commissions include a 8 x 30 meter wall sculpture for the foyer of the Cape Town International Convention Centre in 2003 (with Stefaans Samcuia) and Specimens, for the University of Cape Town’s Medical School campus (2007). Murray was nominated as the Standard Bank Young Artist in 2002. From1991 to1994 he established the Sculpture Department at the University of Stellenbosch and has additionally curated a number of exhibitions.