Drawing Day: Mapping Through Mark-Making workshop with artist Shane Malone-Murphy

This workshop invites participants to use drawing as a tool for noticing, sensing, and responding to the world differently rather than focusing on technical skill or representation. Through a series of guided exercises, including blind contour drawing, listening-based drawing, and making marks with unconventional tools and materials, this workshop will explore how movement, sound, touch, and attention can shape a drawing.

This is an adult workshop. Materials are provided. No drawing experience required just a curiosity about contemporary art. It is an opportunity to experiment, let go of expectations, and discover new ways of relating to place, perception, and the act of drawing.

This event is hosted as part of the annual celebration of National Drawing Day, an initiative of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Shane Malone-Murphy’s art practice examines the histories of land use and ownership through the lens of grief, positioning grief as a catalyst for an urgent rethinking of our attachments to place and to one another. 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. Shane Malone-Murphy is currently a studio artist at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

Event location Information: This event will take place in a ground floor studio with artificial lighting; there is a semi accessible bathroom. For further accessibility information please contact Learning + Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin.