Artist Philip Murphy with wife Dzintra Abrazone. Photo: Leigh Anderson
One of Phillip Murphy’s pieces which is part of the exhibition in Bray.
Anna Nolan, Eva Nolan, Eamon Nolan, Elizabeth Dempsey and Jim Williamson at Philip Murphy’s new art exhibition. Photo: Leigh Anderson
Marie and Andrew Keating, Paul Colbert and Mark O’Brien at Philip Murphy’s new exhibition. Photo: Leigh Anderson
Philip Murphy at Signal Arts. Sharon Barker Caven, Mary Morris, Aoife Ní Mhuirí, David and Katie O’Mahony. Photo: Leigh Anderson
Artist Phillip Murphy is hosting an exhibition at the Signal Arts Centre in Bray which includes both landscape and figurative pieces.
The combination of landscape and figurative pieces at the ‘Instinct and Feel – Mark Making’ exhibition will allow the viewers the time to consider and experience their own instinctive reactions to the world around them – both people and places.
As an artist, Philip is mainly interested in mark making, at times to the point of abstraction, by many means and mediums – from brush to graphite, palette knife, fingertips and even balls of sheep’s wool – working with oils but also loving working with graphite and charcoal. In his work he tries to express his feeling that we exist not solely in the physical form but also beyond what eyesight sees – what we instinctively know and feel, should we take the time to pay attention to and recognise that.
The artist takes his inspiration from Bridia and other valleys on the Iveragh peninsula in Kerry – it’s mountains, field patterns, colours, and light. He primarily explores how we make our marks on land – big and small – and how we use it but also that these marks are temporary and transitory as we move through the generations making a living off it while still dwarfed by it.
The exhibition opened on Monday, June 10, and remains in place until Sunday, June 23, with an opening ceremony taking place on Friday, June 14, from 7pm to 8pm.
