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Kate Murdoch was the winner of the 2015-16 Shape Open. Her sculpture Bad Head Day was the winning piece, kindly donated to the collection by Kate after the exhibition.

'As a partially-deaf person. I spend a lot of time trying to make sense of the world around me. Hearing aids amplify, but don’t necessarily clarify sounds or the human voice. What’s going on? What’s being said? The frustration involved in struggling to hear and join in conversations can sometimes just all feel too much. ‘Bad Head Day’ is representative of the confusion and muddle I can sometimes find myself in: something akin to a head exploding.'

Title	Bad Head Day
Artist	Kate Murdoch
Year	2014
Medium	Ceramic, plastic wire
Dimensions	10 x 20 x 8 (cm)
Image description	Photograph of a small ceramic sculpture. A delicate woman wearing an extravagant, tiered, pale pink ball gown has her arms raised to her head. In place of a human head, though, the sculpture has a messy knot of plastic wire, resembling a graphite scribble or a tumbleweed in shape.
Loan status	Available

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