Shane Malone-Murphy

Shane Malone-Murphy examines the histories of land use and ownership through the lens of grief. By positioning grief as a catalyst for an urgent rethinking of our attachments to place and to one another, he aims to carve out more generous epistemologies of grief and landscape. Working between sculpture and drawing, and using gathered materials such as glass, soot, ash, and clay, his works are often presented in states of transition. Objects lean, fabrics hang, one thing bears the weight of another. These provisional arrangements in unstable forms complicate the boundary between structure and collapse, suggesting a vocabulary of support that is attentive, rather than secure.

Shane Malone-Murphy is a graduate of Sculpture and Combined Media at LSAD (2023) and holds a Professional Certificate in Sustainable Exhibition Making from NCAD (2024). Selected solo and group exhibitions include Say Again, This Place, Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely (2025); From Dust, Platform Arts, Belfast (2025); and Daisy, Daisy-, The Complex, Dublin (2024); Take Care To Leave A Trace, Luan Gallery, Athlone (2024). Shane Malone-Murphy was selected for the Student Forum at The Douglas Hyde Gallery (2024), as Exhibition Mediator for the Irish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), and received the Arts Council Agility Award (2024) and research funding from the Wicklow County Artist Scheme (2024). Malone-Murphy was also shortlisted for the Derek Hill Residency Award at the British School at Rome.