Inspired by our previous fundraising collaborations with Ruth Cuthand and Catherine Blackburn, producing limited edition prints to raise funds for Saskatoon’s Prairie Harm Reduction, AKA has partnered with Audie Murray in the release of a new print, Fuck Around and Find Out, and will be donating all of the proceeds to harm reduction in both Saskatoon and Regina.

Fuck Around and Find Out is a portrait of materials that tell a story of a good time. Originally a sculpture, this work is publicly shared as a photograph. Murray has been developing a series of works that use photography as a form of protection by putting space between the viewer and artworks that feel too culturally intimate to share in a gallery space. The collection of objects in this work includes the upper part of a fiddle from a box of fiddle parts that Murray inherited from her mooshum, a wooden clothes pin, mitten Pom poms (both from thrift stores) and two six pack rings that have been edged with neon orange glass seed beads. All of these items feel familial even if they're banal or from second hand stores. These materials have been adjusted for example the item tag on the glove strings is cropped to subtly highlight the unimportance of the tag. In the same vein, the invisibility of the six pack rings have been emphasized with vibrant beads nodding to the dualities in this image. 

Prints within the edition of 25 are signed and available for $125 each.

*Prints will be shipped in the new year*

Through Murray’s generous donation all proceeds will be donated to Harm Reduction Orgs in both Saskatoon and Regina.

Audie Murray is a visual artist who works with a multitude of mediums such as sculpture, media, beadwork and drawing. Her practice is informed by the process of making and visiting to explore themes of contemporary culture, embodied experiences and lived dualities. These modes of working assist with the recentering of our collective connection to bodies, ancestral knowledge systems, and relationality. Murray is Cree-Métis from the Lebret and Meadow Lake communities located on Treaty 4 & 6 territories and is currently based in Oskana kâ-asastêki (Regina, Saskatchewan). 

Murray holds a visual arts diploma from Camosun College, 2016; a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Regina, 2017; a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Calgary, 2022. She has exhibited widely, including at Remai Modern, Saskatoon; The Vancouver Art Gallery; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; and the Anchorage Museum. Murray is represented by Fazakas Gallery, located on Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territory (Vancouver, B.C.).