Artist

Gavin Murphy

Gavin Murphy works in an essayistic assemblage of unique fabricated elements and reclaimed materials; sourced and found objects; video, photography and text. His art practice is inter-textual in nature combining the fictive and the factual, literary prose and historical characters; drawing from sources ranging from theoretical physicist Ludwig Boltzmann to poet Delmore Schwartz, with a certain interest in the plastic possibilities of cinematic structures and mise en scène. Murphy is a Dublin based artist and curator. He was co-coordinator of House Projects – a series of seven exhibitions in New York, London and Ireland, and was editor of the publication of the same name. He is the recipient of various awards including an Arts Council Bursary Award (2008), and residencies at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, and Fire Station Artists’ Studios (from June 2009). He is co-curator of the art space, Pallas Contemporary Projects. Previous solo exhibitions include Conical, Melbourne, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Newtown, Sydney, both 2009; The Lab, 2008, and Four gallery, 2006, both Dublin. Recent group shows include Dare to live without limits, SUB:URBAN, Rotterdam; iPodism: Cultural Promiscuity in the Age of Consumption, Tulca, Galway; and Frontier with Green on Red gallery.

• Gavin Murphy
• Again, suddenly I could see us, 2008
• Video still

© Green on Red Gallery