E-mail: eimearmurphy92@gmail.com
Eimear Murphy is a visual and tactile artist. She creates sculpture with both visual and touch based access.
Graduating from The National College of Art and Design N.C.A.D. in 2015 in the History of Art & Fine Art Murphy was then awarded Fire Station Artists' Studios Sculpture Workshop, Graduate Residency. It was there she completed a landmark sculptural commission for Dublin Port Company. 'Drop' (2017) is a five-tonne concrete curve provoking a tactile response from the audience due to the variety of textures which concrete provides. 'Drop' is on permanent display in the Maritime Sculpture Garden, Dublin Port.
Eimear Murphy is a recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland's Next Generation Artists Award 2018. With this achievement Murphy is currently developing new and experimental work in her studio. As part of this award she completed a residency in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in March 2019.
In 2018 Murphy's first solo exhibition 'SHAPE HEAP thing', was awarded by and held in Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda.
Selected group exhibitions include: Industry (2018), Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, LACUNA (2017) Taylor Galleries, Dublin, Veins (2016) Molesworth Gallery, Dublin. In Search of Place (2015) Basement Gallery, Dundalk.
Eimear Murphy's works are in the collections of The Office of Public Works and Dublin Port Company.
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Education
2011-2015 National College of Art and Design, Dublin, 1st Class Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting & History of Art
2014 Semester in Royal Academy of Fine Art, Antwerp Belgium
Public Sculpture
October 2017 Drop Concrete Sculpture, Maritime Sculpture Garden, Dublin Port Company, Dublin 1
Selected Exhibitions
2018 Shape, Heap. thing Solo Exhibition, Droichead Arts Centre, Co. Louth
2018 Industry Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath (Curated by Sabina Mac Mahon)
2017 LACUNA [ 04 ] The Taylor Galleries, Dublin (Curated by Sabina Mac Mahon & David Quinn)
2016 Veins The Molesworth Gallery, Dublin (Curated by Prendergast & Moor)
2016 Perennial, The Fumbally Exchange, Dublin
2015 Skibbereen Arts Festival, with The Sarah Walker Gallery, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
2015 Boyle Arts Festival, The Kings House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon
2015 NCAD Degree Show, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
2015 In Search of Place, Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Co.Louth
2014 We’re Painters, Not Poster Makers, Project Space, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
2014 Deuce, Wintertuin, Koninklijke Academie Voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
2013 Comfortable Order,Yellow Box, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
2013 Past and Present St. Vincent’s, Dundalk, Ireland
2013 Kiln paint, Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin
2013 The Lens and the Lie, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
2012 Noah's Ark, Skerries Culture Week, Skerries Art Centre, Dublin
2012 Core Exhibition, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Awards/ Achievements
2018 Next Generation Artists Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2016 Awarded Public Sculpture Commision, Dublin Port Company
2015 Fire Station Artists' Studios Sculpture Workshop, Graduate Award
2015 Graduated First in studio practice in N.C.A.D. Fine Art Painting
2013, 2014, 2015 Mary Cawley Travel Bursary
2011 JP McManus All Ireland Scholarship
Eimear's works are held in the collections of:
Dublin Port Company
Office of Public Works
