Precious Murphy

• Portfolio
• The Work
• Exhibitions
• Contact

• Portfolio

  Portfolio
  • My current portfolio can be viewed here
    

    
    

    A full selection of limited edition prints, greeting cards and gifts by Precious Murphy can be viewed and purchased at The Rock'n'Roll Boudoir during the Brighton Festival

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    
    
    
• The Work

  The Work
  • My intricate and detailed images are intended to demonstrate the beauty and delicacy that I see in architects plans, circuit boards and fantasy space ships.
    An appreciation and interest in how the future was predicted in science fiction movies from the 1960’s and 1970’s makes me think about how now, at the beginning of a new century, we are depicting our future and how we are shaping it.
    
    My love of robots, architecture and maps can be found in small details within the work, often taking patterns directly from features on art deco buildings or the structures of glass and steel found in stadiums and airport terminals.
    
    It is my wish that we take time in our daily lives to really study things that we take for granted. Look carefully at buildings and simple packaging to see the patterns that are formed, the complexity of how one piece of the puzzle cant live without another.
    
    I always want to pick out dull and uninteresting items that we don’t give a second thought to and show how beautiful and intricate the design actually is. Symmetry and balance is something that I don’t have in my own life so in the search for that, I always notice it in everyday things.
    
    The Art Deco work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, his wife Margaret McDonald, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Bauhaus institution have influenced me. I want to create symmetrical designs with unlikely organic patterns being placed alongside each other to create an image that is as intriguing as it is amusing.
    
    
    
    
    
• Exhibitions

  Exhibitions
  • -2012-
    
    20/21 International, London  - Liberty Gallery
    Affordable Art Fair, Bristol        - Liberty Gallery
    Brighton Festival

    Gloss Gallery, Exeter
    
    -2011-
    
    20/21 International, London   - Liberty Gallery
    Affordable Art Fair, London      - Liberty Gallery
    Untitled BCN, Barcelona
    Espai B, Barcelona
    Brighton Festival
    Windsor Contemporary            - PopChoc Gallery
    Affordable Art Fair, Bristol         - Liberty Gallery
    Brighton Art Fair
    Untitled Art Fair, London
    Gloss Gallery, Exeter

    
    -2010-
    
    Glasgow Art Fair                           -PopChoc Gallery
    Brighton Festival
    
    -2009-
    
    Glasgow Art Fair                          -PopChoc Gallery