Biography
︎Sharon Murphy
Biography
Sharon Murphy is a visual artist whose practice is lens-based incorporating photography, video and text. Her work investigates the boundaries between the seen / unseen, fictive / real, conscious / (sub)liminal. Drawing on a background in theatre and informed by concepts in magic realism and psychoanalysis, recurring motifs in her work include: theatre curtains; carousels; circus tents, performative sites; embodied / disembodied staged spaces. Her works address uncertainty, the uncanny, the 'there / not there', linked to an investigation, quintessential to both photography and performance) of what it is the viewer is shown or is seeing.
Self-Portrait in Nice (2008)CV
Education
Diploma History of European Painting (TCD, 2021)
BA Photography (IADT, 2014)
MA Drama (UCD, 1993)
BA English (NUIM, 1984)
Clore Fellow UK (2007/2008)
Artist Collective
︎S/TAC: Shell/Ter Artist Collective (est. 2020) with Diana Copperwhite, Allyson Keehan, Niamh McGuinne and Geraldine O'Neill.
Studio
︎DIVA Dun Laoghaire Institute for Visual Arts
Exhibitions
UPCOMING
May - August 2024
194th RHA Annual Open
June-Sept 2024
in a dream in the happy house
(S/TAC Shell/Ter Artist Collective) at Limerick City Gallery, curated by Una McCarthy
October 2024
Visual Projections and other works
(S/TAC Shell/Ter Artist Collective) at GOMA, Waterford, curated by Jenna Whelan
November 2024
Solo photographic exhibition at Centre Culturel Irlandais CCI, curated by Nora Hickey, Directrice CCI
SOLO AND 2/3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019
There and Not There with Victoria J. Dean at Siamsa Tire, Kerry (Curator Sarah McAvera)
2018
There and Not There with Victoria J. Dean, Golden Thread Gallery (Curator Sarah McAvera).
2017
Stages solo exhibition at Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise.
2016
Moving On at solo exhibition DanceHouse, Dublin.
White Gold at Gallery ‘De Stoker’, Amsterdam with duo Victoria Burgher and Johan vander Dong.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
the ladder is always there
(S/TAC Shell/Ter Artist Collective and invited emerging artists) at Draíocht Dublin, curated by S/TAC
https://www.draiocht.ie/gallery/exhibition/the-ladder-is-always-there
2023
Shelter, National Gallery of Ireland (Print and Drawing Galleries) curated by Anne Hodge (S/TAC artist’s Collective and invited artists and works from the NGI Collection). July - November 2023
https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/shelter
DIVA, Dun Laoghaire Institute Visual Arts - Group Exhibition
RHA (invited Artist) 193rd Annual Exhibition
2022
RHA, 192nd Annual Exhibition.
2021
RHA, 191st Annual Exhibition.
2020
RHA, 190th Annual Exhibition.
2019
Aoife/Cordelia, Search of Her Own Image at RHA, 189th Annual Exhibition.
2018
Halftone, Library Project, Photo Ireland.
RUA 137th Annual Exhibition.
RHA, 188th Annual Exhibition.
Silent Stage at Kukiskes, Lithuania (Yaga Festival). Curators, Mona Casey and Tadas Stalyga.
2017
Homeland at Loop Festival Barcelona and Damer House, Tipperary.
2016/2017
Dog Days at Dunamaise arts Centre. Curators, Therry Rudden and Patricia Hurl.
2016
Group Show at Golden Thread Gallery (Curator Philip McCrilly).
2015/2016
Group show at Dunamaise Arts Centre selected by Eamon Coleman.
Phrases at RUA 134th Annual Exhibition.
2015
Saw Dust curated by Francis Fay at MART, Dublin.
Chasing Shadows at Gallery X, Dublin.
There Was a Child at Loop festival, Damer House Tipperary and Barcelona Loop Festival.
Saibhreas at Damer House Gallery/Dunamaise Arts Centre (Curator, Muireann Ni Chonaill).
Home at DLR Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire (Curator, Mark St John Ellis).
2014/15
Intervals at Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition.
Selkie I at RUA 133rd Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2014
Ingrained Graduate show at Moxie Studios and DLR IADT.
Awards
2023
Recipient of Individual Artist Grants from Carlow Co Co Arts Office and Dun Laoghaire Co Co Arts Office
2022
Recipient of the Artists Residency (visual arts) Award Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris
Recipient of Artists Bursary Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Co Co Arts Office
2020
Art Council Professional Development Award
2020
Carlow Co Co Arts Grant (R&D Project Award for new series In Search of Her Own Image)
2019
Arts Council Travel and Training Award Royal Academy London
2018
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Co Co Arts Grant (Professional Development Award)
2016
Arts Council Travel & Training Award to Rencontres d’Arles, France
2015/2016
The Golden Thread Gallery Belfast Artists’ Career Enhancement Programme
2014
Dunmaise Arts Centre/Laois Arts Office, artist residency award, Arthouse
Short-listed for Inspirational Arts Award in Photography at DLR IADT
Residencies
2023
Artists Residency at CCI, Paris month long residency (September)
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residencies
2017
Artist’s Studio Residency Award, Draíocht
2015–2016
Artist in Residence Dublin Youth Contemporary Dance Company DYDC
2015
Artist in Residence MART Project Space Award, Rathmines Dublin 6
2015
Artist in Residence Award Laois Arthouse and Dunamaise Arts Centre
Featured
2023
Irish Arts Review Autumn
‘but here alone’ a feature by Stephanie McBride on Sharon Murphy’s current practice
https://www.irishartsreview.com/articles/but-here-alone/
2022
192nd RHA Annual featured in ‘Desiring Drapery’ essay in Exhibition Catalogue
2020 and 2019
189th and 190th RHA Annual, included in exhibition catalogue
2019
The Irish Times, RHA Annual Review (photography) by Aidan Dunne
2016
︎Art Reveal 12, 2016 pp 52 – 57