“Murphy’s work reveals to us a timeless landscape and despite the fact that there are solid figurative elements and discernible forms in many of his works that nonetheless float and hover, fixed and distorted through an outback haze, his idiom for the most part is one of Abstract Expressionism and is well served by a contrived fortuitous terra-morphism in that his interpretation of perspective, form and reality are deeply altered and shifted so that what is manifested becomes a metaphor or symbol for the obvious or banal.” -Anthony Frater
