Fine Arts
Meet the artist: Ciarán Murphy
The Kilkenny-based artist on his favourite space, what he is reading and an artist whose work he would collect if he could
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.
Objects seem ...