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I am thrilled and grateful to receive this professional Development Award from Age and Opportunity as part of the Bealtaine Festival annual artist award. This grant will allow me to deepen my drawing practice and explore how drawing can be combined, mirrored and contrasted in my lens-based practice. Specifically this award allows me to formally train in drawing and I am very excited by this prospect. Sharon Murphy June 2024



 
 
In a dream in a happy house

Shellter Artist Collective (S/TAC)


Limerick City Gallery

20 June –
26 Augist 2024  


 

 ‘In a Dream in a Happy House’ is S/TAC’s third show to date and their first show that focuses solely on the collective itself rather than through the lens of a historical collection or role as artistic shelter. Once again, S/TAC zones in on the emotional and psychological theme of shelter but this time sets it in a more ominous expression; one of confinement, duty, expectation and the delusions of domestic bliss.  Taking inspiration in the title from the 1980s Siouxsie and the Banshees track ‘Happy House’, which is both an ironic take and a protest against an ideal of domesticity.

Shellter Artist Collective (S/TAC) is:
Diana Copperwhite, Allyson Keehan
Niamh McGuinne, Sharon Murphy, Geraldine O’Neill.


 


The ladder
is always there

8 Dec 2023 –
3 Feb 2024
at Draíocht 


Curated by S/TAC
 
Photo Credit: Declan Murphy Lighthouse


Image:  Ensemble 2023, Sorcha McNamara

Shell/Ter Artist Collective (S/TAC): Diana Copperwhite, Allyson Keehan, Niamh McGuinne, Sharon Murphy, Geraldine O’Neill in association with ten emerging artists; Maya Brezing, Matthew Coll, Karen Ebbs, Spencer Glover, Ami Jackson, Mary Martin, Fiach McGuinne, Sorcha McNamara, Eileen Leonard Sealy and Catherine Ward.

The exhibition’s title, the ladder is always there, is from the poem ‘Diving into the Wreck’ by the feminist American poet Adrienne Rich who conjures the image of a woman preparing for a deep-sea scuba dive to explore a shipwreck. The ladder can be understood as both an object and as a metaphor for support and movement, always there.

The main focus of this exhibition is to highlight the role of an artist collective as a form of support for early career artists and to encourage collective action through art. It presents new works by recent graduates alongside more established artists in drawing, painting and its expanded forms — photography, print, film, installation — which take inspiration from or which reference painting, both materially and conceptually.

Opening by Christine Kennedy, Senior Curator/Head of Collections at IMMA.

︎Draiocht website



    

 

194th RHA Annual Open Exhibition 2024

Interval III (136 x 109 cms)
Fine Art Pearl Archival Print mounted on dibond, tray framed.
    



Shell/Ter Artists Collective S/TAC at National Gallery of Ireland | Film 2023

Made by
Lore Films Ltd Cathy Dunne  


    

© Sharon Murphy 2024