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Gavin Murphy (b.1973) COLOPHON, 2012

Gavin Murphy (b.1973) COLOPHON, 2012 framed notebook and laser cut acrylic signed on reverse; titled and dated on artist's label also on reverse h:10  w:12 in. Exhibited: Light Rhythms, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2014; 40/40/40 Touring exhibition from the collection of the OPW, 2013 (Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain; Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie, Warsaw, Poland; Palazzo Della Farnesina, Rome, Italy); Colophon, Oonagh Young Gallery, 2012; Vue Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, 2012 Gavin Murphy is an artist and curator based in Dublin, where he is co-director/curator of the artist-run space Pallas Projects/Studios. He works across a range of media including sculpture, text, film, and 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 w Warszawie, 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.