Anton McMurray is an Australian artist renowned for his monumental sculptures in wood incorporating inspired forms from the natural world.

Anton was raised and continues to live on the forested slopes of Melbourne’s Dandenong Ranges beneath towering Mountain Ash, Messmate and lush Tree-fern gullies. This awe-inspiring environment aroused a curiosity and affection for the material that has become his principal medium. The tree and the natural world, present for Anton as both teacher and the subject that fuels his lines of enquiry, resulting in sculptures that champion natures mystery, intricate details, importance and marvellous structural triumphs.

His sculpture studies have engaged him with master woodcarvers around the world, including Canada, Japan and Papua New Guinea. In Australia he studied under celebrated Melbourne sculptors Bruce Armstrong and David Wilson at Prahran Faculty of Fine Art, completing a bachelor degree of fine art, at the Victorian College for the Arts.

Today Anton’s work is motivated by an innate concern for our natural world and a profound desire to commit his efforts towards its preservation, protection and celebration.

Awards and Residencies

2020 Family choice award, Montalto Sculpture prize.

2019 Peoples choice award, Yarra Valley Sculpture prize.

2012-2013 Artist in Residence, Private Estate, Yarra Ranges, Victoria

2010 Westpac award, Toorak Village Sculpture Exhibition

2003 Artist in Residence, Inami International Wooden Sculpture Symposium, Toyama, Japan

2000 Artist in Residence, Monash University, Mornington Peninsula and Caulfield campuses

1999 Artist in Residence, Arthur’s Seat Maze, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria.

1998 Artist in Residence, Vancouver Television, Vancouver, Canada