BASIC TALKS ~ Shane Malone-Murphy ~ January 2026, TU Dublin
1.15pm, 6/1/2026
TU Dublin, Grangegorman Campus, Dublin 7
Basic Space is delighted to present Shane Malone-Murphy for our January BASIC TALK - 1.15pm on Friday the 6th of January 2026, TU Dublin, Grangegorman Campus, D7.
Artist Statement
Shane Malone-Murphy is an artist from Co. Wicklow who 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.
Artist Biography
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). He works with Kunstverein Aughrim as Technical Support and Sustainability Consultant. 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). Other highlights include being selected for the Student Forum at The Douglas Hyde Gallery (2024), Exhibition Mediator for the Irish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, receiving 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.
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BASIC TALKS is a series of informal talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with the Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is an open platform for lectures, workshops, presentations and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers and critics who generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art.
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For the months of November, December 2025 and January 2026, Hugh Lane Gallery & Basic Talks are delighted to have the Basic Talks programme hosted by the TU Dublin School of Art & Design, Grangegorman, Dublin 7.
This talk is presented as part of the HLG Explore & Learn offsite programmes during the Gallery’s period of temporary closure.
How to get to TU Dublin:
TU Dublin School of Art and Design is located in the East Quad building, Grangegorman campus, Dublin 7 (D07 XFF2).
The talk will be held in room EQ-203 located on the second floor and is directly opposite the main lifts - you can also use the maze map to find room EQ-203.
The building is served well by public transport with both the Luas Red Line (Smithfield stop) and the Luas Green line (Broadstone stop) close by. https://www.luas.ie/ . Further information about getting to our campus can be found here: Grangegorman | Getting Here | TU Dublin