Christopher McMullan’s practice is a multi-sensory communication of the materiality of situation, often encouraging physical interaction and recalibrating the senses. Exploring the materiality of aroma, he uses distillation as an archival exercise, initially intending to familiarise himself with Ireland and vying to make new smells into familiar ones. However feeling that this archive is meant to be shared, in an image-saturated world, McMullan uses this archive to find alternatives to the banality of codified images and regimented language. He thinks of the archive as an apparatus to serve as an arbiter between material and perceiver which acts to diffuse, to translate and to quantify.

Christopher McMullan is a Dublin-based artist from Texas (USA), and a graduate of Sculpture & Expanded Practice with Critical Cultures at NCAD (2023). Christopher’s graduate work Perfumer’s Organ was Highly Commended for the NCAD Staff Prize 2023, and was shortlisted for the RDS Visual Art Awards presented at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) (2023), winning the RDS Mason Hayes & Curran Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award. His work Muc chaor (2023) was specially commissioned by The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art for Unearthing Empire (2023). His work has been included in Irish Arts Review and he was listed in the Irish Times Magazine’s '50 People to Watch 2024'.