Sharon Murphy is a lens-based artist whose practice often incorporates video, sound and installation. Her work investigates the boundaries between the seen/unseen, fictive/real, and conscious/(sub)liminal. Drawing on a background in theatre and informed by concepts in magic realism and Jungian psychology, recurring motifs in her work include: theatre curtains; carousels; performative sites; and embodied/disembodied staged spaces. Recent work has addressed uncertainty, the uncanny, the ‘there and not there’, linked to an abiding concern (quintessential to photography and performance) as to what the viewer is shown/is seeing. Exhibited most recently at: Centre Culturel Irlandais, GOMA Waterford, Limerick City Gallery, RHA, Dublin; NGI, Printing and Drawing Gallery, Draíocht, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; Siamsa Tíre, Kerry; Halftone, PhotoIreland; Loop Festival, Barcelona. She is a member of Shell/Ter Artist Collective S/TAC (est 2020) and has a studio at DIVA Dun Laoghaire Dublin. Selected for Centre CultureI Irlandais, Paris Artist Residency 2023 and Dorset Artist Residency, Dorchester, 2023, Murphy’s work is held in private and public collections in Ireland, the UK and the USA and her work has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, CCI Paris, Esmee Fairbank Foundation, Dún Laoghaire/Dublin County Council and Carlow County Council. Murphy is a recipient of the Clore Fellowship 2007/2008. Education: Dip. History of European Painting Trinity College Dublin, 2021, BA Photography Dun Laoghaire Institute for Art Design Technology, Dublin, 2014, MA Drama, University College Dublin, 1993.