Carolyn Murphy is celebrating the end of 2025 with work in two Open exhibitions in the North West: ‘Bury Open’ and ‘Open 2025’ at the Lake Gallery in West Kirby. She was able to make the private view on the Wirral and visited the Bury Art Museum on another occasion to appreciate the show.
Carolyn with her work at the Wirral opening
Work in both exhibitions is for sale and both Opens continue into the New Year, so there is still plenty of time to see selected work across a wide range of media.
It was busy at the Lake Gallery PV
Open 2025 at the Lake Gallery, West Kirby, show is open Thursdays to Saturdays 10am to 4pm until 24 January 2026.
Carolyn with her work at the Bury Open 2025
Bury Open runs at Bury Art Museum, open Tuesdays to Saturdays, until 21 February 2026.
East London Printmaker’s Festival of Print is coming soon – and Carolyn Murphy will be showcasing new work from a series of monotypes called Fragile structures. This is Carolyn’s second time in the Festival, as an Associate Member, and FOP2025 will be at the Mile End Art Pavilion from 21 November to 30 November.
The Festival of Print is East London Printmakers’ annual exhibition – the highpoint of the creative year. FOP2025 celebrates the wide range of contemporary printmaking produced in the studio as well as the wealth of skill and talent at ELP, showcasing the work of established artists and emerging creatives. The Festival of Print offers visitors the rare opportunity to see and acquire original prints from around 100 participating artists. The Festival also highlights ELP’s values of community and cooperation, demonstrating the studio’s excellent facilities for printmaking using woodblock, screenprint, etching and lino. The Festival of Print will also launch this year’s limited-edition Box Set, a collection of 30x30cm prints for sale individually and as a set.
Venue: The Art Pavilion, Clinton Rd, London E3 4QY
Opening hours: 11-00am to 6-00pm (except Sunday 30th November at 4-00pm)
Late night evening with panel discussion: Friday 28th November at 6-00pm
Find out more: exhibition@eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk
Carolyn Murphy will be part of the Intersect exhibition with Fankle Art Collective in Stratford, East London from 30 October to 21 November. Intersect brings together ten artists, who work across painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, collage, photography, and film and video. Carolyn will be presenting a large format print installation A Scream of Swifts as well as a new series of composite prints.
‘To meet and cross at a point’ is to intersect and this is Fankle’s fourth exhibition together, the fourth exploration of interconnecting ideas at a single point in place and time. Diverse ideas jostle within the space of the Stratford Unitarian Gallery, connecting and seeking out common ground.
As the Fankle Collective members make, remake, transform and deconstruct, for the brief period of the show, works overlap and interplay. Narratives that explore identity and relationships with nature or home, and notions of belonging and migration intersect with concepts of fragmentation and reconnection. We are reminded that a world of life is woven from strands, overlapping, contrasting, changing and fragile. Intersect celebrates those shared connections.
‘A Scream of Swifts’ (detail), a linocut and laser cut print installation by artist Carolyn Murphy.
Fankle is a multidisciplinary art collective formed in 2023 by emerging artists from the Middlesex University MA Fine Art and MA Printmaking programmes. The name ‘Fankle’, a Scottish word for entanglement, reflects the complex web of ideas they draw together, as well as the varied generational and geographic origins of Fankle members, with threads extending from London to Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Berlin, Munich, Baghdad, Tehran and Mexico City.
Artists exhibiting in Intersect: Natalie Dee | Phil Dunn | Angela Forrester | Freddy McBride | Carolyn Murphy | Iliana Ortega-Alcázar | Jan Pimblett | Hanan Tawfiq | Kathy Rooney | Luke Anthony Rooney
For more information, check out www.fankle.art and @fankle.art on Instagram.
Open: Thursdays to Saturdays, 2pm – 6pm
Meet the Artists events: Saturday 8 November and Saturday 15 November, 2pm – 4pm
Stratford Unitarian Gallery, Stratford Unitarian, West Ham Lane, Stratford, London E15 4PH
Carolyn Murphy is an AA2A Artist in Residence in Chester this year, joining the University of Chester as part of the AA2A Project scheme. Residencies provide access to state-of-the-art resources and a collaborative environment for professional practice development, whilst enriching the academic environment for students. This year, AA2A is celebrating 25 years of delivering residency programmes through art and design institutions across England.
“In this residency, I plan to develop further the installation side of my practice, bringing together traditional print processes with digital technology, such as laser cutting, to take forward my interest in fragile structures,” Carolyn explained. “I love to learn and to share knowledge and I hope to continue to do this through the AA2A residency, and connect with a wider learning community through printmaking.”
Carolyn Murphy with some of her installation works, Mile End Art Pavilion, July 2022
The residency at the University of Chester runs from October 2024 to summer 2025. There are six resident artists, bringing diverse disciplines and experiences to the programme. In December the AA2A artists put on an exhibition in Chester city centre, at the University’s CASC Gallery, to introduce themselves and their practice to students and staff.
‘Reclaiming’, on display at CASC Gallery, Chester, December 2024Carolyn Murphy’s installation ‘No Stone Unturned VII’ in the window of the Chester exhibitionVisitors to the galleryArtists’ talks to staff and students, December 2024AA2A coordinator Greg Fuller talks about the work on show
During the year, Carolyn will be sharing updated on her Instagram page, as the residency progresses and she experiments with new techniques.
Post updated with exhibition images – December 2024.
Carolyn Murphy will be showing work at Source 2 exhibition in Bath this August, alongside Maxine Foster and Jonathan Roelofse. The show at 44AD artspace brings together three artists working with their connections, reflections and interactions with landscape.
Artists
Maxine Foster will be showing a contrasting series of prints from Devon and California. Carolyn Murphy brings her artwork from a major landmark location of the Pennine region of North West England, including her large monotype ‘Winter Hill’, in six sections, with collage and burnt sections. Jonathan Roelofse paints and prints from the plantations and woodland of Central Portugal.
Works by Maxine Foster‘Winter Hill’ by Carolyn MurphyJonathan Roelofse at work
How to find it
The exhibition runs from Monday 19 – Sunday 25 August 2024 in the main gallery, which is open 12 – 5pm / Sun 1pm – 4pm. You can find 44AD artspace at 4 Abbey Street, Bath BA1 1NN. The private view is on Tuesday 20 August from 6pm – 8pm and you are very welcome.
Following on from a successful first exhibition together in 2023, Maxine and Jonathan return to 44AD with new work for Source 2. This is the first time Carolyn has joined them and she is exhibiting in Bath for the first time. To find out more about Source 2, please check out further details on the 44AD website.
Carolyn Murphy will show new work in the ‘Unspun’ exhibition at Willesden Gallery in June, with the Fankle Art Collective.
Exhibition poster
‘Unspun’ is an exploration of undoing, release and disintegration, and a loose and lively celebration of holding things together. See nine artists from the Fankle Collective focus on making, remaking, spinning and transformation. They bring together ideas of deconstruction and rebuilding, disconnection and reconnection, fragmentation of language and communication.
In the show, Fankle members unravel and spin stories over time, mythology and place, exploring migration, home and belonging, our relationship to nature and the non-human. The exhibition runs from Tuesday 25 June until Saturday 6 July 2024, with the private view on Thursday 27 June, from 6-8pm.
‘Lightly Tethered’, a new installation piece by Carolyn Murphy
As narratives emerge, tangling and untangling, visitors are reminded of the idea that a world of life is woven from physical and emotional strands, overlapping, contrasting, constantly changing and fragile. Fankle is a multidisciplinary art collective formed in 2023 by emerging artists from the Middlesex University MA Fine Art and MA Printmaking programmes. This show encompasses printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, painting, collage, photography and film and video.
The group’s name ‘Fankle’, a Scottish word for entanglement, reflects the complex web of ideas that combine in their shows and the varied generational and geographic origins of its members, with threads extending to Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Berlin, Munich, Baghdad, Tehran and Mexico City.
Exhibiting artists: Maryam Abdollahi | Phil Dunn |Angela Forrester | Carolyn Murphy | Moritz Nicolai | Iliana Ortega-Alcázar | Jan Pimblett |Hanan Tawfiq | Kathy Rooney
Getting There
For more information, please check out www.fankle.art and @fankle.art and @willesden_gallery on Instagram.
The gallery is on the ground floor of The Library at Willesden Green, a 5 minute walk from Willesden Green underground station (Jubilee line). Open weekdays 10.30am to 8pm, Saturdays 10.30am to 5pm and Sundays 12pm to 5pm.
Carolyn Murphy will be part of Derby Print Open 2024, in June, along with over 70 other printmakers, selected for this year’s exhibition. Her works ‘Fracture’ and ‘Fracture 2’ will feature among over 250 prints for the show, which opens on Saturday 1 June.
‘Fracture’, a collagraph by Carolyn Murphy, will be available framed and unframed.‘Fracture 2’ by Carolyn Murphy will be available unframed at the Derby Print Open 2024.
The Derby Print Open is an exhibition, organised by Green Door Printmaking Studio, which showcases contemporary printmaking from artists based in the United Kingdom.
Visitors will have the opportunity to peruse and purchase prints throughout the from 1 – 30 June 2024. There will be a wonderfully diverse selection of traditional and contemporary techniques, including screen printing, etching, linocut, monoprint, lithography and more. Works will be on show across four venues as part of a print trail; Banks Mill Studios, Dubrek Studios, Déda and The Smallprint Company.
Additionally, you can find details about the exhibition, including opening times, here. Since opening hours of different venues do vary, please do check carefully. The launch event is on Saturday 1 June, from 11am to 2pm. All venues are within 15 minutes walk from each other.
‘Inspired by Manchester’, a pop-up exhibition in Sale town centre, includes work by Carolyn Murphy. The exhibition, organised by Neighbourhood Gallery, features work by artists from across the North West of England in a range of media. It’s the first time that Carolyn has submitted work, so it was great to see ‘Bridgewater Canal’ on the wall, alongside some fabulous artists. Carolyn also had some of her linocuts in the window and all works were for sale.
Exhibition in Sale town centre
The exhibition runs from 9 February to 2 March with a private view on 8 February 2024. It’s an exhibition of works “inspired by Manchester’s iconic cityscapes, spirited people and vibrant culture”.
Carolyn at ‘Inspired by Manchester’ with her etching of Bridgewater Canal
‘Bridgewater Canal’ is an etching, which captures a hidden level of Manchester, where the canal runs right through the city centre. It’s an atmospheric image and it’s due to feature in a book about Manchester soon.
‘Sale Water Park’, a reduction linocut by Carolyn Murphy, has gone off to new home from the show.
Carolyn Murphy is part of the printmaking ‘Surface Challenge’ exhibition at Barbican Library, organised by the Printmakers Council. The exhibition displays a wide range of printmaking techniques and sets members a challenge, interpreting the theme however they wished for this selected show.
Details of the Show
Carolyn submitted an experimental piece, inspired by the complex surfaces and spaces of Eduardo Chillida’s ‘gravitaciones’ series of works on paper, that she has been studying as part of her MA programme. The surface of her work ‘Falling Fragments’ is divided over four pieces of paper, connected with thread. Incorporating collaged elements and embossing, the surface is hard to read and suggests an urban landscape and uncertain spaces.
Carolyn with her work ‘Falling Fragments’ at the private view
The exhibition runs from 2 February to 26 February 2024 in the Foyer of the Barbican Library, in the Barbican Centre, London. There’s a private view on 7 February 2024 and all are welcome.
To see more of Carolyn’s work, check out the Gallery section of this website and social media channels.
‘Borderlines’ MA degree show includes work by artist printmaker Carolyn Murphy. This small group exhibition showcases two years of exploration and regular public exhibition. It provides a snapshot of three emerging artists from Middlesex University postgraduate programmes and their diverse creative practices.
The exhibition reflects on the creative process itself, with works addressing identity, fragility and ethics. The MA Fine Art Printmaking and MA Photography artists in ‘Borderlines’ draw on themes of protest, loss and reinvention through print, installation and photography.
Artists featured in the show:
Wallis Asher (MA Fine Art Printmaking)
Jennifer Forward-Hayter (MA Photography)
Carolyn Murphy (MA Fine Art Printmaking)
The exhibition private view was on Thursday 7 December – with the show itself running from 8 – 13 December at Middlesex University’s Hendon Campus, Grove Building mezzanine. Opening times 11am to 5pm.
‘No stone unturned V’ by Carolyn Murphy in foreground. Work by Wallis Asher behind.Private view, with work by Carolyn Murphy and Jennifer Forward-Hayter (left)
Carolyn’s work in this exhibition is largely based on an area around ‘Winter Hill’, a Pennine moorland north of Manchester, which is still recovering from peatland fires that burned for weeks, above and below ground, in 2018.
Working in both 2D and 3D forms, Carolyn uses traditional printmaking techniques in this show to explore ideas of damage and repair, and illusions of stability and control.
Design work for the show was created for the group by Moritz Nicolai.
Carolyn with ‘A World We Share?’ at the private view.
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