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CIARAN MURPHY GARY COYLE
The habitual collecting of imagery forms an important part of Ciaran Murphy’s practice. Images spanning vastly different eras taken from art history, natural history, scientific enquiries, nature documentaries and other more arbitrary sources, serve as a starting point for his work. His work takes the form of large and small-scale paintings. The finished paintings depict objects treated in isolation, tiny snippets of time and ambiguous contexts or sites that seem to hold out the vague anticipation of an event. As well as working as individual paintings, the grouping of the works becomes important; meaning and interpretation in individual works become both reliant and unhinged within the context of the larger group. Murphy is also an accomplished musician and will give a number of live Sarod performances throughout the Festival. The Sarod is a type of lute originating in Afghanistan but often identified with styles of music in India. Ciaran Murphy studied at NCAD and Dun Laoghaire College of Art and is represented by Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin. Murphy was the recipient of the Eurojets Futures Award in 2004. In 2008 he had solo exhibitions in Philadelphia and Chicago.
CORBAN WALKER Corban Walker has gained international recognition for his installations, sculptures and drawings that relate to perceptions of scale and architectural constructs. Local, cultural and specific philosophies of scale are fundamental to how he defines and develops his work, creating new means by which viewers can interact with, and navigate, their surroundings. Walker will exhibit drawings and a new installation. Corban Walker graduated from NCAD in 1992 and has lived in New York since 2004. He has mounted solo exhibitions throughout Europe and America and realised numerous public commissions including the Bank of Scotland Headquarters, Dublin and Mitsubishi Estate, Tokyo. His work is part of numerous public and private collections around the world. Walker is represented by PaceWildenstein, New York, where he had a solo show in September 2000 and again in 2007.
ISABEL NOLAN The intimacies and distances inherent in relationships; the ambiguity of language; desire and self-consciousness; depictions of the natural world and symbolic abstraction are recurring sources for both motifs and themes in the work of Isabel Nolan. Though there are frequent shifts in tone, between coldness, bemusement, melancholia and yearning, a point of entry common to much of Nolan’s work is its recognition of our seemingly implacable need to define our relationships with others. The artist’s hypersensitive, even neurotic, persona is both sceptical of and empathetic to humanity’s relentless compulsion to understand everything - from our inner lives to the inscrutable nature of the universe. Nolan’s practice encompasses drawings, paintings, animation, mixed media and fibreglass sculptures and most recently, embroidery and fabric wall-hangings. Isabel Nolan represented Ireland at the 2005 Venice Biennale as part of a group exhibition. Recently she has presented new work at the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin and ARTSPACE, New Zealand and this summer, has shown as part of ‘Coalesce Happenstance’, SMART, Amsterdam, at the Doggerfisher Gallery in Edinburgh and at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne Metropole, France. Her work is represented in various collections, public and private, in Ireland and abroad. Nolan is represented by the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.
Gary Coyle lives and works in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, a place that informs much of his work. He works in a variety of media including drawing, film, photography and, more recently, performance. Over the past number of years Coyle has photographically recorded his daily swimming ritual at the Forty Foot in Dublin and has recorded, in his notebooks and diaries, the mood of the sea and the idiosyncrasies of the characters who swim there regularly. At Sea, commissioned by Project, Dublin is a spoken word performance based on his daily swimming routine. Gary Coyle has exhibited in the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, the Tate Liverpool and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Coyle, who was recently elected into Aosdána, is a member of the RHA and is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin. He is working on a major solo exhibition, which will be held in the RHA Gallery, Dublin in March 2010.