Ciarán Murphy

“GRIMM is pleased to announce hollow daze, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Irish artist Ciarán Murphy, on view at the London gallery from January 22 to February 28, 2026. This will be Murphy’s second solo exhibition with the gallery in London.

Murphy’s paintings exist in fields of tension and opposition. They draw from a vast archive of found images in which hierarchies have been collapsed, and motifs with different referents are spliced together, dissolving distinct subject matter into complex compositions

In much of Murphy’s work, there is a sense of word play, both within the images themselves, their titles, and indeed the title of the exhibition itself.”

In my own practice I focus a lot on the title of the art work. Inspired from notes, readings, my word collections I think a cheeky title can guide the viewer without explicitly stating purpose.