Gavin Murphy’s work involves an essayistic assemblage of unique fabricated elements and reclaimed materials; sourced and found objects; video, photography and text. His art practice is intertextual in nature combining the fictive and the factual, literary prose and historical characters, with a certain interest in the plastic possibilities of cinematic structures and mise en scène.

Gavin is a Dublin-based artist and curator. He is the recipient of various awards including an Arts Council Bursary Award (2008 & 2009), and residencies at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, and currently, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin. Recent projects include the two-part exhibition Automatic, curated with Chris Fite-Wassilak, and coordination of the premiere of Willie Doherty’s Three Potential Endings for Darklight Festival. He was co-coordinator of House Projects – a series of seven exhibitions in New York, London and Ireland, and was editor of the publication of the same name. He is co-curator of the art space Pallas Contemporary Projects.

Solo exhibitions include: Conical (Melbourne), and Institute of Contemporary Art, Newtown (Sydney) both 2009; The Lab, in 2008, and Four gallery, in 2006 (both Dublin); recent group shows include Dare to live without limits, SUB:URBAN, Rotterdam, 2009; iPodism: Cultural Promiscuity in the Age of Consumption, Tulca, Galway; Frontier with Green on Red gallery, both 2008; and he has exhibited with UK gallery Colony, in their Birmingham space and at Zoo Art Fair, London, both 2007.

More information & current projects: www.gavinmurphy.info

Light cares can speak but heavy ones are dumb, 2008

Hardwood, fabricated plastic, fluorescent tubes and fittings, 1.6 x 2 x 2 metres