Aileen Murphy

20 Sep-15 Nov 2019

Overview

Feelings, as instinctive actions, are the starting prompts and continuous self-reflexive arbiters of Aileen Murphy’s paintings. Her ideas, beliefs and emotions, especially those that are vague or irrational, lead to decisions about form, composition, colour, and subject at each stage she makes her artwork. Paintings that may, at first, appear spontaneous or whimsical are often constituted from a sequence of assertive and controlled conclusions, which results in the vast spectrum of idiosyncratic aesthetic attributes that characterise Murphy’s practice.