Mongrel Foundation > Artists Pages > Gavin Murphy
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Sketches for a Light/Heavy Monument, 2006.
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Everything is illuminated, 2006 (installation views) |
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Gavin Murphy is an artist and curator currently living and working in Dublin. He is Assistant Director of the new art space Pallas Contemporary Projects and is currently co-coordinating the House Projects series of exhibitions, events and publication. He has worked within a number of art organizations such as ACMI and Gertrude Contemporary Arts Spaces in Melbourne and Darklight Film Festival in Dublin, co-curating and producing the first commercially available Irish produced short film and animation compilation DVD - Darklight Compendium Vol. 1. As a member of the art collective Mongrel Foundation he has designed and produced their web archive as well as co-curating the audio-visual event 'If you can Believe Your Eyes And Ears' at Project, Dublin. He produced the 'Diverse Means' publicaiton for pallas and has written for The Visual Artists' News Sheet. He has exhibited with Four, Pallas and Project (Dublin), Catalyst Arts (Belfast), End Gallery (Sheffield) and Colony (Birmingham). Gavin completed his Diploma in Art in 1996, Degree in Interactive Media in 2002, and Masters in Visual Arts Practice in 2007.
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Selected Exhibitions:
- 2007:
House Projects - Various sites (Coordinator and curator/exhibitor)
The Important thing is That Tomorrow is Not The Same as Yesterday -
Pallas Contmeporary Projects (curator) - 2006:
Sketches for a Light/Heavy Monument - Four and other locations Dublin (solo)
Objects in Waiting - End Gallery, Birmingham, UK
By Diverse Means We Arrive At The Same End - Pallas/Docklands. - 2005: 'All at once, together, at the same time' - Colony, Birmingham, U.K.
- 2004: Transit - Dublin Fringe Festival; ‘Shop’ -Dublin Docklands.
- 2003: Artists/Groups - Project Arts Centre.
- 2002: Precinct - Pallas Studios, Dublin & Catalyst Arts, Belfast.
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“My work is a continuation of the recent (and ongoing) series 'Sketches for a Light/Heavy Monument', which focused on creating a space between the polar views of existence as either light or heavy, or the non-return or eternal return of existance (This work was exhibited late 2006 in Four gallery and various off-site locations.) My practice is visual with a broad content base and an extensive conceptual back-story, which informs the work in a structural and ideological sense, rather than acting as subject material for illustrative purposes. I use an essay-like basis to gather and present ideas, worked into constituent element pieces and author a compsed assemblage of what I would regard as sculptural forms (regardless of their being made of video, photography, text or found objects). A light/heavy monument is my term for an artwork that oscillates between the horror and the beauty in the continual death of the present and in the wish for its continual return, what Nietzsche calls "das schwerste gewicht" (the heaviest weight). This ongoing series of works concerns the practice of the human tendency toward leaving 'heavy markers' - recording lives and achievements - versus the lightness of actual existance. The mode of practice - sculptural assemblage - was bourne from the desire to articulate an essayistic practice where questions were asked rather than answered. The theoretical structure - dialectical aesthetics - aims to engage with difference, to work through a formal synthesis, not to present a consensus but a vibration of ideas. ”