Gallipoli letters add poignancy to Idris Murphy's $20,000 art prize win

By Andrew Taylor
Updated April 24 2014 - 12:13pm, first published 3:00am
Idris Murphy with <i>Gallipoli Evening 2013</i>. Photo: Sasha Woolley
Idris Murphy with <i>Gallipoli Evening 2013</i>. Photo: Sasha Woolley

When Idris Murphy travelled to Gallipoli last year with a group of artists, the landscape painter carried letters written by a man he had never met but whose name he inherited.