Heart drawings

Made around 2001 when I was 27. Colored heart shapes with stream of consciousness pen text over them. Getting used to my handwriting etc. and my stream of thoughts, self acceptance. They are working through handwriting itself as something specific to the body (Hélène Cixous’s écriture féminine often comes up in conversation). They are also working through the thoughts, feelings and emotions involved in knowing that “I’ll never have handwriting like Tracy Emin”. – SMW.


Listings connecting to the sub typology “Heart drawings” (46)



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Photographer: Charlott Markus

  • Catalog No.
  • 01644-2021-DoE-InGoodCompany75
  • Title
  • In Good Company (Horsepower): Materials from the Gift Science Archive
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  • Variable
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  • Digital image files
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  • Digital

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SMW solo exhibition at mistral, Amsterdam (2021). The exhibition opens up the process of the ‘monumental’ 18-month collaborative performance Gift Science Archive (GSA) to the public for haptic engagements with the artist’s working and archiving processes. Visitors are invited to peruse the GSA archive database and to pull materials from the collection for a closer look and, over a cup, for a story. The ‘research experience’ is thus set into relational motion, by conversations – a central part of Murray-Wassink’s practice. Co-curated by Megan Hoetger (If I Can’t Dance) together with Radna Rumping and Huib Haye van der Werf (mistral).

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01437-2001-TwHd-ReflectionsOnYouth
  • Title
  • Reflections on Youth
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster, pen and unidentified make-up on paper
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  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “[I want to] reclaim something from my youth and make it right.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01438-2000/2001-TwHd-Gesture
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  • Gesture
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  • 42 x 59
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  • Poster marker and pen on paper
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  • Physical

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Quote from Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet’.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01253-c2001-TwHd-ArtIsNotEquipped
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  • Art is Not Equipped
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  • 42 x 59
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  • Poster marker and pen on paper
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  • Physical

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First shown in the ‘Double Trouble’ exhibition with Schneemann at Cokkie Snoei Gallery in 2001 – “Cy Twombly wouldn’t show in a space like that.” (Schneemann)

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  • Catalog No.
  • 01254-2001-TwHd-JimDineOctopus
  • Title
  • Jim Dine Octopus
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
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  • Poster marker and pen on paper
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  • Physical

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First Heart Drawing, which was shown in the ‘Double Trouble’ exhibition with Schneemann at Cokkie Snoei Gallery in 2001 – “Cy Twombly wouldn’t show in a space like that.” (Schneemann)


  • Reflection Notes

“Jim Dine was, according to Schneemann, the first male to do a Happening who was making himself vulnerable.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00432-2001-TwHd-YouCantImagine
  • Title
  • You Can't Imagine
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  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker, pen and coffee on paper
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  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00405-2001-TwHd-UpToSpeed
  • Title
  • Up To Speed
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
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  • Poster marker, pen and coffee on paper
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  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

Rijksakademie Internal Open Studios – 07.09.20. “… artists over 70s with storages all over the world. Their children are worried, they don’t even know what’s in there. This is really a problem with artists’ families.” – Anon. “We [artists] have no saying, it’s up to them. Now I have a core group of people that will take care of them [my art pieces].” – SMW.

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  • 00434-2001-TwHd-YoungerMen(WhatColorIsYourPa…
  • Title
  • Younger Men (What Color Is Your Parachute?)
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker, pen and coffee on paper
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  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

“I can’t deal with being angry at men. It’s a different anger: low tolerance for male behaviour. You can’t just trust men as friends.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00406-2001-TwHd-ChargedEnergized
  • Title
  • Charged Energized
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker and pen on paper
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  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

“I remember writing (in a letter to Carolee) ‘I am an ARTIST’.” – SMW. “Fuck your lover!” – AC.

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  • 00435-2001-TwHd-BarbaraChase-Riboud
  • Title
  • Barbara Chase-Riboud
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
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  • Poster marker, pen and coffee on paper
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  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

“These little VIP accomplishments.” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00407-2001-TwHd-IWILLNOT
  • Title
  • I WILL NOT
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
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  • Poster marker and pen on paper
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  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

“Sex, perfume and music are the three things that can snap me out of nothingness.” – SMW. “Just purely on the rebel side of life.” – AC.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00436-2001-TwHd-Polysemous(MaleAss)
  • Title
  • Polysemous (Male Ass)
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker, coffee and pen on paper
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  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

“Having history is worth something.” – SMW. “It feels good to have a thicker skin… you would think caring less would be worse but it isn’t.” – SMW.

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00408-2001-TwHd-IAmHuman
  • Title
  • I Am Human
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  • 42 x 59
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  • Poster marker and pen on paper
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  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00438-2000-TwHd-STAGGERING
  • Title
  • STAGGERING
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker, pen and coffee on paper
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  • Physical

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  • Catalog No.
  • 00409-2001-TwHd-TheWhiteBoy
  • Title
  • The White Boy
  • Dimensions
  • 42 x 59
  • Materials
  • Poster marker and pen on paper
  • Object Location
  • Physical

  • Reflection Notes

“I like looking a bit rough. That you can see the signs of life in a man, that turns me on.” – SMW.

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