Fine Arts

Meet the artist: Ciarán Murphy

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Ciarán Murphy: his paintings feature an unsettling array of familiar and unfamiliar form

Ciarán Murphy creates melancholic paintings that are informed by a strong formal sensibility, addressing the fact that we live in a world where images are omnipresent, exerting an almost ghostly or spectral presence in our everyday existence.

In his paintings we encounter an unsettling array of familiar and unfamiliar forms; sticks, rocks, Martian landscapes, insects, interiors, hands, letters, blank screens, architectural features and geometric shapes.

Crossing, painting by Ciarán Murphy. Picture: Brian Cregan

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