Film

Micheal Murrel: Art, Nature, and Catawampus

2021 · 24m · Documentary

For five decades, sculptor Michael Murrell has made work that explores our human relationship with nature. He is drawn to the spiritual qualities in the artworks and utilitarian objects of other cultures, specifically Oceanic, African, and Native American, an ethnographic interest he combines with an accumulation of personal experience to inform much of his long career. Though his sculpture draws deeply from these various sources, Murrell pushes his form beyond the referent to become something completely new - so new that certain pieces feel like discoveries rather than constructions. With over 200 exhibitions of his work, Murrell has chosen to retain most of it so that it can be displayed to the public in a former cotton mill in the north Georgia foothills.

• Hal JacobsEditor · Director
• Joe BorisExecutive Producer
• Alicia MacBethExecutive Producer

Release date

January 10, 2021

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

24m

Genres

Documentary