About this artwork
In 1998 McMurdo approached St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh to photograph its pupils during practice sessions. This picture belongs to the series 'Young Musicians' and was produced at that time. The girl's violin has been erased using digital technology, and this has given the photograph some of the strangeness of her intense and withdrawn concentration on a sound we cannot hear.
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artist:Wendy McMurdo (born 1962) Scottish
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title:Solo Violin, St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh 1998
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date created:1999
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materials:Colour negative print on aluminium
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measurements:(framed: 120.00 x 120.00 x 2.30 cm)
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credit line:Purchased with the Iain Paul Fund 1999
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accession number:GMA 4311
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Wendy McMurdo
Wendy McMurdo
Wendy McMurdo was born in Edinburgh and studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in the ways in which technology influences early learning, and has worked with children in schools. In recent years digital processing has allowed photographers...
