I am thrilled and grateful to receive this professional Development Award from Age and Opportunity as part of teh annual 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
Shellter Artist Collective (S/TAC) is:
Diana Copperwhite, Allyson Keehan
Niamh McGuinne,Sharon Murphy, Geraldine O’Neill
194th RHA Annual Open Exhibition
Interval III (136 x 109 cms)
Fine Art Pearl Archival Print mounted on dibond, tray framed.
Fine Art Pearl Archival Print mounted on dibond, tray framed.
The ladder is always thereDraíocht Gallery
8 Dec 2023 –
3 Feb 2024
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, 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 websit
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 websit
Shell/Ter Artists Collective at NGI | Film
2023
Made by
Lore Fim Ltd, Cathy Dunne