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photography. His work is in the collection of Dublin City Gallery The
Hugh Lane, the opw, and a number of private collections, and is work
has been presented at Zoo Art Fair, London (with Colony gallery),
and Vue Art Fair, at Royal Hibernian Academy (with Oonagh Young
gallery). He was included in the major survey of Irish contemporary art
Changing States: Contemporary Irish Art & Francis Bacon’s Studio, at
the Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, 2013; and was selected for 40/40/40
– a touring exhibition from the collection of the opw, organised by the
Department of Foreign Affairs, 2013 at Centro Cultural Conde Duque,
Madrid, Spain; Biblioteka Uniwersytecka wWarszawie, Warsaw, Poland;
and Palazzo Della Farnesina, Rome, Italy. A large-scale monograph of
his recent work ‘On Seeing Only Totally New Things’, in collaboration
with design studio Atelier David Smith, was published in 2013 by the
Royal Hibernian Academy.
Murphy has had solo exhibitions at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh
Lane, 2014, Royal Hibernian Academy, 2012, and Oonagh Young Gallery,
Dublin, 2012. Group exhibitions include: ‘The mind was dreaming.
The world was its dream’, Temple Bar Gallery, 2014; Light Rhythms,
Irish Museum of Modern Art (project space), 2014; Every Friend of my
Friend is my Friend (Part 2), Chert, Berlin, 2013; After the Future, eva
International, Limerick, 2012; and the three-person show Frontier, Green
on Red gallery, Dublin, 2008. His work has been covered in Frieze art
magazine, Architecture Ireland, and The Sunday Times, and he is the
recipient of several Arts Council awards, and residencies at Fire Station
Artists’ Studios, Dublin and Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne.
Fiona Chambers
graduated with an ma in Fine Art from Chelsea College
of Art and Design (2011) and the National College of Art and Design
(2006) where she achieved a ba (Hons) in Fine Art Painting. She is the
co-founder of the Irish collective scissorscutspaper and she currently
lives and works in London.
Recent exhibitions include: a two person exhibition with Aideen
Doran entitled After Hours, Glasgow Project Room, 2014; Modern
Witchcraft, curated by Juan Bolivar, wherein she exhibited alongside
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