Kate Murphy
Kate Murphy
Kate was born in Dublin but now lives and works in Co. Wexford. She graduated from the National College of Art & Design in 2000 with an honours degree in Fine Art.
In 2021, Kate’s work was selected for Wide Open Spaces at Wexford County Council and in 2018 took part in Wexford Arts Centre’s/ Wexford County Council’s dual-space exhibition of contemporary painting entitled And Creatures Dream… In 2019, Kate’s work was accepted into the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition and into Cairde Visual, the annual group exhibition at The Model Gallery, Sligo. She was an invited artist at the Boyle Arts Festival 2014.
In 2006, 2007 and 2009 she had solo exhibitions with Stone Gallery, Dublin. Kate's fourth solo exhibition, The Good Room, was in Wexford Arts Centre in 2011. Talbot Gallery in Dublin hosted This is the Point of Contact, in October 2013.
Kate was short-listed for the Golden Fleece Award in 2010 and was awarded the first prize Visual Arts Bursary by Wexford County Council in 2009. She was awarded an Artlinks bursary in 2017. Her work is in the collections of The Office of Public Works, the Bank of Ireland, Wexford County Council, Wicklow County Council and in private collections.
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