This is quite an impressive display of art work for a first solo show. Not only because of the stunning exhibits but because it involves collaborative efforts, the artist is already represented in some highly prestigious collections and because it can be seen as a retrospective. The exhibits date from 1994 - 2001 encompassing work produced while the artist was travelling and studying for her BA in Visual Arts.

Murray is a Koori woman and the collaborations involve working with her two sons, Daen (10) and Borun (9). The two works Inside My Brain and My Playtime were created in 1998. The boys' imaginations were plumbed and wild, wonderful fun, wishful dreams, and just a touch of terror, came to the surface with exaggeration and spontaneity. Murray's role in the collaboration was to take the drawings and extrapolate them into the larger-then-life unique state collograph prints seen here.

In these images we see computer icons floating in a dark field with a small elephant, large Indigenous motifs, birds, flowers, the obligatory 'boy toys' of rocket, car, space ship, and a lone parachutist. All are placed around and within a large self-important self-portrait. Allow me to suggest young Borun considers himself to be one terror skate-boarder!

Despite the dark hues in these works there is a sense of wholeness and balance, in the art and the message. Murray says she wanted to overwhelm the viewer by the imagery found in the child's imagination and she has succeeded. These images, along with the series Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse remind us how every sight and slight is taken into the mind and heart of the child. Perhaps for this reason Murray, on her own, has produced collographs of potent futuristic icons to engage Indigenous youth with a sense of their own nobility.

As exciting as futuristic super-heroes are, far more interesting is the hero in Murray's Grandfather Series. These much smaller works have a greater impact for their simple format, fine drawing and because the subject is real, not imagined. Three black and white lino prints depict the artist's grandfather as a boy, a soldier and a boxer under the appellation Black. The fourth image, a wood cut, shows us the man in his maturity and his name is Billy Murray. There is poignancy and pride in these works. Let your sons build their noble super-heroes on the likes of their great grandfather Lesley, not some animated computer god.

This exciting exhibition provides a visual feast and food for thought.