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Andy Murray
Hall of the Months
7–28 June 2025


Andy Murray 
Hall of the Months
7—28 June 2026
The Avenue, Newton Mearns
Glasgow G77 6EY

ShapeeroMurray is thrilled to invite you to the opening event of Hall of the Months, a new exhibition by our very own Andy Murray. Featuring collage and works on paper, the show is a visual exploration of his recent residency in the gallery space. The body of work draws inspiration from the 14th century fresco Sala dei Mesi (Hall of the Months) situated in Ferrara, Italy. Throughout the residency Andy has embarked on his own journey through time, translating historical questions of space and surface into new adventures on paper. Playful and immersive, the exhibition is a visual constellation of the artist's influences and poetic visual language.



Installation Views


Artworks 


Andy Murray
Horses, 2025
Mixed media on paper,
75 x 63 cm

Andy Murray
Astral Glamour, 2025
Mixed media on paper,
70 x 60 cm
Andy Murray
Hotel Zero, 2025
Mixed media on paper,
79 x 59 cm
Andy Murray
Triumph of Minerva, 2025
Mixed media on paper
65 x 53 cm
Andy Murray
LIBRO, 2025
Mixed media on paper
69 x 60 cm

Andy Murray
Jiro dreams of Jeannie, 2025
Mixed media on paper,
66 x 60 cm
Andy Murray
Book of Planets, 2025
Watercolour and Ink on Paper

Andy Murray
Singer/Songwriter, 2025
Mixed media on paper
110 x 80 cm
Andy Murray
La Notte, 2025
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
67 x 69 cm
Andy Murray
Cinema Nova, 2025
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
83 x 100 cm
Andy Murray
Clocks, 2025
Watercolour and Gouache on Paper
68 x 86 cm
Andy Murray
Big Star, 2025
Watercolour and Ink on Paper
41 x 53 cm

Andy Murray Andy Murray (b.1989) is an Australian artist based in Glasgow. 
His current output centres around drawings on paper and hybrid sculptural assemblages. He runs ShapeeroMurray with Beth Shapeero. Murray completed an MLitt in Fine Art Practice at Glasgow School of Art in 2022.

Solo exhibitions include: Hall of the Months, ShapeeroMurray (2025), Faded Angel, The Habersdashery, Glasgow (2023); Shine! Blow! Loud! Land! at GSA Stow College (2022); DANCE, A.B.C.H Warehouse, Melbourne (2021); Shark Blue Eyes, Brunswick Gallery, Melbourne, (2018); Send Me The Mountains You Dream About, Joan Workspace, Melbourne, (2017); and Before I Was There I Was Here , La Niche, Melbourne (2016.) Group shows include: Super Night Riders, ShapeeroMurray (2024,) Dust Roulette, Glasgow Project Room, (2023) Strewn Taboos’, GSA 2022; Open Plan!, Studio Brunswick House, Melbourne, 2019 and Pattern For Yemen, Marfa Gallery, Collingwood, 2018. 





Exhibition text This show is about books; and after that: fate, precursors, and signatures. 
A long time ago (2018) I read How to be Both by Ali Smith. The key protagonist is historical painter Francesco Del Cossa, portrayed in the book as a woman in disguise to enable her to paint freely. The 15th century fresco on the eastern wall of the Salone Dei Mesi (Hall of the Months) in Ferrara, Italy is attributed to Del Cossa.

This book directed me to other books, as is their want. I was catapulted into the work of Aby Warburg and his Atlas Mnemosyne (located on table.) Atlas Mnemosyne presents Del Cossa’s Hall of the Months as a room divided into sections representing each month and split vertically into three levels: at eye level, a chronicle of earthly courtly activity, in the middle band; the signs of the zodiac floating in a deep blue, and in the upper register; the Olympian Gods drawn by mythical beasts in chariots.

Warburg was obsessed with the historical origins of this fresco and their mythic potential. He believed secret divinities had disguised themselves through Egyptian decans and the Arab astrological tradition, transported through time and space as icons displayed on a wall in a palace for guests to escape boredom. I was intrigued. And so in 2023 I visited the fresco in Ferrara.

This is my attempt to make a fresco. It seemed only fitting that I use books to guide me: my own cosmic library of precursors, secret companions and guides from the living and the dead. The books are on loan from friends, over-due from GSA library and from my own collection. As for the Fresco, does it exist? It’s in disguise. May the reading become writing

Text by Andy Murray 



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Andy Murray
Beth Shapeero
2026