Rachel Enright Murphy

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 Bursary Award (2025) and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Emerging Artist Bursary (2024).