Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (TBG+S) is pleased to announce Rachel Enright Murphy as the recipient of the TBG+S Recent Graduate Residency Award in 2025.
The Recent Graduate Residency Award offers a unique and substantial professional development opportunity to an emerging artist on an annual basis. The award includes a large free studio for one year, an artist bursary and a variety of institutional supports to an artist who has graduated from an undergraduate degree in the past three years. TBG+S looks forward to welcoming Rachel Enright Murphy to its creative community of artists, and supporting her practice as it develops.
Rachel Enright Murphy's work combines moving image, sound, performance, and printed material with text and explores error and ambiguity as an artistic practice, confronting the boundaries and inadequacies of written language. Her work often creates intimate narratives within impersonal or bureaucratic structures. Examples include romantic poetry as a stock photo watermark, spelling mistakes in the trial of a 15th century homosexual nun and a never-ending horse racing commentary. She appropriates from a range of documentary sources such as scientific papers, historical and legal testimony, reconfiguring linguistic forms to examine the production of identity, objective truth and collective experience.
Rachel Enright Murphy received an undergraduate degree from Fine Art Media with Critical Cultures, NCAD in 2022. Solo exhibitions, residencies and performances include Clerical Error (2025), Ormond Project Space, Dublin; SIM Residency, Reykjavik (2024); and Fly Floor, The Complex Gallery, Dublin (2023). Select group shows include: Antirust, Ormond Studios, Dublin (2024); AMB, Kunstverein Ars Avanti, Leipzig (2023); Caesura, Unit 44, Dublin (2022). In 2025, she was awarded a place on the Pan Pan 12th International Mentorship programme for performance and has been a member of Ormond Studios, an artist-run studio and exhibition space in Dublin city centre, since 2023. She is the recipient of an Arts Council Agility Award (2024) and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Emerging Artist Bursary (2024).
Rachel describes the impact of the award on her practice and her hopes for the residency going forward:
The trust that TBG+S has put in my practice has been transformative on both a professional and personal level. I am excited to be part of a community of incredible artists, many of whose work I have admired since I was at college. I received this award three years after graduating and I really see it as a testament to all of my efforts since then. My current practice deals with the law as an artistic material and is interested in complex and sensitive approaches to labour and collaboration. The practical and institutional supports from this residency will allow for deeper engagement and more risk taking within my practice, so that these ideas can be properly realised and embedded within the work.
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