Gavin Murphy
Gavin Murphy is a Dublin-based artist and curator with an interest in cultural sites and histories. His research-based, intertextual practice involves the assemblage of unique fabricated elements, sourced and found objects, images and texts, with an interest in the sculptural possibilities of cinematic structures and mise en scène.
Solo exhibitions include Double Movement, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 2017; In Art We Are Poor Citizens, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2014; Something New Under the Sun, Royal Hibernian Academy, 2012; Colophon, Oonagh Young Gallery, 2012; Remember, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2010; and Moving Deaths, The Lab, 2008. Group exhibitions include Tulca 2018: Syntonic State, curated by Linda Shevlin; Selective Memory: Artists in the archive, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, 2015, Changing States: Contemporary Irish Art & Francis Bacon’s Studio, BOZAR, Brussels, 2013, and After the Future, EVA International, Limerick, 2012. He was long-listed for the 2015 Aesthetica Art Prize, exhibiting in York, UK; and his work was included in Les Rencontres Internationales, Paris (2014) & Berlin (2015).
He is the recipient of various awards from the Arts Council, and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, and residencies at Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin, and Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne. He has edited and written for a number of publications including C20 Magazine, the Visual Artists' New Sheet, and AIM (Artists' Initiatives’ Meetings) 2010–2016, Stockholm. His publication On Seeing Only Totally New Things, produced in collaboration with Atelier David Smith, was published by the RHA in 2013.
As co-director/curator of Pallas Projects/Studios, he has devised and realised numerous artist-led projects and programmes, and writes, advocates and conducts research on artist-run practice. He was co-editor of the publication Artist-Run Europe: Practice/Projects/Spaces (Onomatopee, Eindhoven, 2016), and he was selected as a nominator for the prestigious Apexart Fellowship award in 2015. As an Associate Lecturer on IADT's BA Art programme, he has co-delivered the 'In the making' series of professional practice student exhibitions since 2015.
His work is in the collections of Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, the OPW, and several private collections.
Links:
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
