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Moving Deaths, 2008.
Gavin Murphy’s practice is related through an essayistic form of sculptural assemblage, made of
Gavin Murphy is a Dublin based artist and curator. He was co-coordinator of House Projects –
Solo exhibitions include: Conical (Melbourne), and Institute of Contemporary Art, Newtown (Sydney)
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Installation view, The LAB, Dublin
unique fabricated elements and reclaimed materials; sourced and found objects; video, photography
and text. His recent series of works Moving Deaths invoke a web spun from various sources –
Ludwig Boltzmann’s theories relating to entropy and probability; the doodles of pioneering film
distributor W.W. Hodkinson; man’s relationship with nature and with time; texts by or found in,
Delmore Schwartz, Milan Kundera, Nietzsche, and Montaigne; and the plastic possibilities of
cinematic structures and mise en scène.
a series of seven exhibitions in New York, London and Ireland, and was editor of the publication
of the same name. 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. He is co-curator of the art space
Pallas Contemporary Projects.
both 2009; The Lab, in 2008, and Four gallery, in 2006 (both Dublin); recent group shows include:
Tulca, Galway, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, and the 3-person show Frontier with Dublin gallery
Green on Red, all 2008; and with UK gallery Colony, in their Birmingham space and at Zoo Art Fair,
London, both 2007.