- The first Maori programme to air on prime-time television was Below Koha in 1982. Muru along with Aroaro Hond, Robert Puwhare, Mona Papali'l and Ernie Leoard were involved.
- Muru was awarded the Te Tohu Aroha mo Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu Exemplary/Supreme Award in 1990 at the Creative New Zealand Te Waka Awards.
- His life's work includes, painting, sculpture, journalism, broadcasting, directing, acting, set design, theatre, poetry and whaikorero.
- He began his broadcasting career in 1966.
- He was a self-taught artist although he did receive some instruction from Katerina Mataira while at Northland College.
- Selwyn Muru went on attend Ardmore Teachers' College specialising in arts and crafts.
- He was a New Zealand artist of Maori descent (Te Aupouri, Ngati Kuri).
- He was also known as Herewini Murupaenga.
- Muru, poet Hone Tuwhare and artist Para Matchitt founded the Maori Writers and Artists' Association (Nga Puna Waihanga) in 1973.
- An exhibition Muru curated in 1969, The Work of Maori Artists, was the first group show of contemporary Maori art at the National Art Gallery of New Zealand (now Te Papa). Muru has said: "Maori art has always been contemporary.".
- He was affiliated with the iwi, Te Aupouri and Ngati Kuri.
- In 1967 Muru was appointed assistant to the Head of Programmes, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. In this role he created Te Puna Wai Korero, 'a weekly current affairs programme in English on northern Maori issues'. He began presenting in the early 1970s on Te Reo o Te Pipiwharauroa, weekly current affairs in the Maori language (replacing Ted Nia).
- In 1964 he worked on the John O'Shea (Pacific Films) feature film Runaway, where he was building sets and also had a small acting role.
- The New Zealand Portrait Gallery held a retrospective exhibition entitled Selwyn Muru: A Life's Work for three months starting in November 2022.
- After a solo exhibition and a feature article in Te Ao Hou, by 1964 Muru had become established as an artist.
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