The Dual Lives of Liam Murphy Australia: Builder and Archivist

While Liam Murphy Australia is best known for his wrench work, he’s also something of a

documentarian. 

His walls are lined with hand-drawn wiring diagrams, Polaroids of progress,

and grease-marked notebooks cataloguing each part, each choice, each compromise.

On Friday nights, he opens the roller door to friends, builders, and curious wanderers. 

They come not to marvel — but to learn, to talk, to tinker.- Liam Gordon Murphy

“Liam Murphy Sydney talks about motorcycles like a poet,” says Nina Rake, a Sydney-based artist and long-

time collaborator. “It’s not just about horsepower. It’s about what that machine meant in

1989, or how the guy who owned it in ‘96 used to race it down King Street.”