Rachel Enright Murphy is a multidisciplinary artist from Dublin. Through video, sound, performance, and textual material, her work aims to interrogate language’s relationship to the human voice. Rachel works across a range of disparate subject matter, focusing on how emotion or intonation of the voice both succeeds and fails to transcend language. She is concerned in the vibratory aspect of the human voice in comparison to writing; as sound is both felt and heard. Announcement, liveness, and factual documentation are key elements of her work as she reconfigures linguistic forms and creates alternate communication methods. She holds a BA of Fine Art Media with Critical Cultures from The National College of Art and Design Dublin.
Recent engagements include Clerical Error (2025) - a solo show in the Ormond Project Space, participating in SIM residency Reykjavik in 2024, a group show in Kunstverein Ars Avanti Leipzig (2023) and Dzaldov Gallery Berlin (2021). She has performed in the Complex Gallery Dublin as a response to Fly Floor (2023) and in Unit 44, Dublin. She is a recipient of the Arts Council Agility Award (2024) and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Emerging Artist Bursary (2024) and General Artist Grant (2023). She has a studio space in Ormond Artist Studios in Dublin where she is a member and co-director.
Recent engagements include Clerical Error (2025) - a solo show in the Ormond Project Space, participating in SIM residency Reykjavik in 2024, a group show in Kunstverein Ars Avanti Leipzig (2023) and Dzaldov Gallery Berlin (2021). She has performed in the Complex Gallery Dublin as a response to Fly Floor (2023) and in Unit 44, Dublin. She is a recipient of the Arts Council Agility Award (2024) and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Emerging Artist Bursary (2024) and General Artist Grant (2023). She has a studio space in Ormond Artist Studios in Dublin where she is a member and co-director.
Education -
(2018 - 2022) - National College of Art and Design: (BA Intl) Fine Art Media with Critical Cultures (1st class hons.)
(2021) - Universität der Künste, Berlin: Klasse Hito Steyerl -Lens Based (erasmus)
Exhibitions -
2025
Clerical Error - Ormond Project Space, Dublin.
2024
Antirust - Ormond Project Space, Dublin.
Open Space - SÍM Barn, Korpúlffstaðir (open studio).
2023
Fly Floor, The Complex Gallery and Studios - Dublin (performance)
DET, PilotenKeuche Artist Studios - Leipzig
Half a second before it was said - Kunstverein Ars Avanti, Leipzig
2022
Caesura, Unit 44 - Dublin
V Shape, M Shape - NCAD Graduate show - Dublin
Dublin Modular Livestream, Unit 44 (performance)
2021
PROTO Final year exhibition - NCAD, Dublin
I Love The Things I Kill The Most - Dzialdov Gallery, Berlin
Brunnenstraße 42, Berlin
2020
Chairborne (Digital Exhibition)
Don’t Touch The Work (Digital Exhibition)
2019
Digital skin VR open studio - IMMA Stables, Dublin
Soup BA media YR 2 exhibition - NCAD, Dublin
Awards and Funding -
2024 - Arts Council Agility Award
2024 - Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Emerging Artist Bursary
2023 - Dun Laoghaire Rathdown General Artist Grant
2022 - RDS visual art awards (longlist)
Residencies -
2024 - SIM residency programme - Reykjavik
2023 - PilotenKeuche international residency programme, Leipzig
2023- Screen Service online residency
Publications and Digital Platforming -
2024 - Mosaic: Douglas Hyde Student Forum publication 2023
2023 - Caesura - Dublin Art book Fair - TBG + S, Dublin
2023 - And Time Is Good To Soft - Dublin Art book Fair -TBG + S, Dublin
2023 - Screen Service digital residency - (Half A Second Before It was said)
2022 - Rundgang.io - (V Shape, M Shape)
2022 - Irish Arts Review - (V Shape, M Shape) 2021 - Emerge Magazine - Issue #2 RatPark - (A Fossil’s Milk)
Artist Talks and Panel Discussions -
2025 - A River In Between - Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
2024 -SIM Artist Talk - SIM residency, Reykjavik
2023- Culture night open forum - Douglas Hyde Student Forum
2022 - DATA 20: DATA now panel - NCAD Gallery - Dublin
2022 - Biosphere - NCAD Degree Show, NCAD Dublin
Voluntary Roles -
2023 - Ormond Artist Studios, Dublin
2023 - Douglas Hyde Student forum, Dublin
2022-23 - Clancy Quay Artists Professional Development Programme, Dublin
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