Aileen Murphy

Aileen Murphy

BornNationalityBased In
1984IrishBerlin
Biography

In her distinctive approach to painting, Murphy generates imagery through a combination of slow layering and fast applications of oil paint, animating a delicate urgency and sparking sensations of both epiphany and discomfort. Fictive characters are the focal points of Murphy’s paintings. The figures fluctuate under the viewer’s eye, revealing and concealing themselves behind and via the materiality of the medium. The paintings have evolved through Murphy’s experimental exploration of paint. In her hands, painting is an act of imaginative action—colour and gesture are live wires. The images committed to canvas arrive there through an ongoing process of reinvention. A true identity is revealed only to then conceal itself and re-emerge as something other but no less true. ...

Selected Artworks
Butter-by-pea
Aileen Murphy
Butter-by-pea, 2020
150 x 140cm
O! O!
The Weekend
Aileen Murphy
The Weekend, 2019
194 x 161cm
wet talk
Aileen Murphy
wet talk, 2021
21 x 30cm
your her hair
Aileen Murphy
your her hair, 2021
21 x 30cm
The pilot
Aileen Murphy
The pilot, 2021
21 x 30cm
Half Sister!!
Aileen Murphy
Half Sister!!, 2021
21 x 30cm
bald and wild
Aileen Murphy
bald and wild, 2021
21 x 30cm
O Gape!
Doubled Over
Aileen Murphy
Doubled Over, 2019
140 x 150cm
Computer
Aileen Murphy
Computer, 2022
190 x 150cm
Fig Newton
Aileen Murphy
Fig Newton, 2023
110 x 110cm
Grotto
Aileen Murphy
Grotto, 2024
160 x 130cm
Pocket
Aileen Murphy
Pocket, 2024
200 x 140cm
Triple Midnight
Aileen Murphy
Triple Midnight, 2024
160 x 130cm
À la sauce Robert
Aileen Murphy
À la sauce Robert, 2024
160 x 130cm
Marigold, as cream
Aileen Murphy
Marigold, as cream, 2024
160 x 130cm
Cold Case
Aileen Murphy
Cold Case, 2024
160 x 130cm
Biennals
Drawing biennial2021 - London
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