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Shell/Ter Artist Collective Exhibition at National Gallery of Ireland
July–November 2023 
Shelter will highlight new artworks created by the five members of the Shell/Ter Artist Collective (S/TAC). Diana Copperwhite, Allyson Keehan, Niamh McGuinne, Sharon Murphy and Geraldine O’Neill work in a variety of formats: painting, sculpture, expanded print and photography. Their work will be complemented by a selection of objects from the Gallery’s collection, and pieces by international artists whose work and practice resonates with the Collective. Using the Print Gallery imaginatively to show works that explore the idea of shelter, traditional methods of display will be expanded and disrupted to create a vibrant, thought-provoking exhibition. Curator: Anne Hodge

See the ︎National Gallery website for more details.
 
Credit: Mary Swanzy (1882 – 1978), Self-Portrait with a Candle, ca 1940. ©The Artist’s Estate. Photo National Gallery of Ireland




The Chocolate Factory sessions with the Shell/Ter Artist Collective
May–July 2022
Some collaborative wearable sculptures from our studio incubation workshop series funded by the Arts Council and led by artist/facilitator Paula Erraught.

The Collective has been also joined by Anne Hodge, Curator Print and Drawing Gallery NGI, Mathias Senge, Chair of Organic Chemistry TCD and Evi Numen, Old Anatomy Museum Curator TCD.  

Image: Collaborative sculptures: Performing the Body, the Body as Shelter. Exposure | Erasure | Deception | Secretion.



Artist Studio Residency at DIVA Dún Laoghaire
July 2022
I am DIVA’s Summer artist in residence in the Stage Studio where I will be developing work for upcoming exhibitions and new projects later in the yearsand for 2023. 





Featured work in ‘Desiring Drapery’,
RHA 192nd Annual Exhibition

May 2022
‘Desiring Drapery’ is this year’s commissioned essay by Dr Alyson Keehan, for the RHA annual Exhibition catalogue. Her insightful critical work features art from a wide range of artists, including me, who employ textiles, costumes, materials, drapes in their work. 

Artists include: Aideen Barry, Susan Connolly, Amanda Coogan, Naomi Draper, Allyson Keehan, Mick O’Dea, Geraldine O Neill, Rajinder Singh, Jennifer Trouton. My work from the series ︎Intervals is featured.

You can read the essay ︎here.

Image: Untitled I from ‘Intervals’ (2014/2015).

© Sharon Murphy 2023