Profile

Patricia Murphy is a full time professional artist who works from her studio in Blackrock, County Louth.

She is interested in the transformational and emotional impact of colour on people and places which is conveyed through expression of abstract paintings.

Her art practise is mainly exhibition and commission based and her choice of media depends on the commission. She uses paint and mixed media on a variety of surfaces from canvas, board, acrylic sheeting and steel.

Much of her smaller work is mixed media on silk or cotton which allows great spontaneity and vividness of colour. Patricia has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad and has completed many commissions from large percent for art schemes for government bodies to corporate and private commissions.

Selected Career Details:

Public Commissions

• 3 large paintings for the Dept. of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources.
• Free hanging installation for the atrium in Adelaide road, for Dept. of Comm., Marine & Natural Resources
• Rug For ministers office, Department of Education.
• Wall-hanging, Department of Social, Family & Community Affairs.
• Wall-hanging for Sustainable Energy Ireland (Irish Energy Centre)
• Wall-hanging, Vehicle Registration Office, Dublin.
• Wall-hanging, Louth County Hall.
• Two Large Paintings, Irish Rail (CIE) Connolly Station, Dublin

Corporate Commissions / Collections

• Office Of Public Works
• Dept. Arts, Culture & Gaeltacht
• Dept. of Education
• Department Of Social & Family Affairs
• The Naughton Foundation
• Irish Life
• Irish Energy Centre
• Dundalk Institute of Technology (DKIT)
• Iarnrod Eireann
• Louth County Council
• RTE
• BDO Xavier Simpson
• Microsoft
• Central Bank of Ireland
• Louth County Museum
• Dept. of Comm. Marine & Natural Resources

Selected Exhibitions

• 2005 ‘Piece’ travelling exhibition
• 2005 ‘Access to Arts’, Central Bank, Dublin
• 2004 Iomhi
• 2003 Baileys Cow Parade
• 2002 to date North Louth Painters, Annual Exhibition
• 2001 Microsoft Art Exhibition