Information/Biography

Artist Statement

Patrick Murphy works as an artist & independent curator and is based in South Yorkshire. UK

His work is interdisciplinary, using a diverse range of media, skills and techniques. Much of his work is concerned with creating a dialogue with our surroundings and each other. Using familiar objects and themes he depicts the world around us, altering the original context of subjects so they appear simultaneously both familiar and unfamiliar, encouraging or stimulating a sense of questioning from the viewer. He is also a curator and has been instrumental in the developement of the HIVE contemporary art gallery in his home town of Barnsley, South Yorkshire. His curatorial practice is concerned with the ways that artists connect with and influence society using a diverse range of media, skills and techniques.

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Projects
Developed and curated HIVE Gallery, Barnsley. 2008
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Public Realm
Volume, Various locations. 2008
Click to see Volume
Home, Various locations. 2008
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Commissions
Barclays Capital Bank, Canary Wharf, London, 2008
Digital Media Centre, Barnsley. 2008

Solo Exhibitions
The Space Between, Clock Tower Gallery, Sheffield. 2007
New Work, Friar Lane Gallery, Nottingham. 2007
Portfolio Gallery. Barnsley. 2006
Tampopo, Leeds. 2003
Cooper Gallery, Barnsley. 2001

Group Exhibitions
Buy Art, Urbis, Manchester. 2008
BCAF, Battersea, London. 2008
Comme Ca Group Exhibition, Lowry Hotel Gallery, Manchester. 2007 Prelude, Spitalfields, London. 2007
Group Show, Friar Lane Gallery, Nottingham. 2006
Off the Shelf. Saltburn Gallery, Saltburn by the Sea. 2006
Objects in Waiting. End Gallery, Sheffield. 2006
Host:06. North Light Gallery, Huddersfield. 2006
Yorkshire Open Art Exibitions 1994 – 2000

Click here to view my work at Inter Art
Click here to view my work at Comme Ca
Click here to view curator profile on Axis

Awards
Arts Council Individual Artist Award, 2007
Arts Council Individual Artist Award, 2001

Education
Sheffield Norton College, Degree Graphic Communication 1989-91
Barnsley College of Art 1986 - 89

Collections
Barclays Capital Bank, Canary Wharf, London
Digital Media Centre, Barnsley
AFO, London
Private Collections, UK