Shane Malone-Murphy
Shane Malone-Murphy is a Wicklow-based artist, who recently graduated with a first-class honours degree in Sculpture and Combined Media from The Limerick School of Art and Design. Shane’s practice investigates the entanglement of the human experience with land, throughout both personal and cultural realms. His work specifically denotes the impact of grief on one’s experience of the world. His practice is committed to harnessing the power of grief as a catalyst for ecological and social change. By understanding grief in a broader context, he aims to expose its potential to drive meaningful shifts in our relationship with the environment.
Grief and Its Emblems Are Inseparable sees Malone-Murphy attempting to make sense of the complex terrain of his childhood by confronting the pervasive feelings of displacement that permeated throughout his life after the death of his mother when he was young. This installation comprises of 63 cardboard castings of stones gathered by the Malone-Murphy from various sites of personal significance in Co. Wicklow, principally from The Great Sugarloaf Mountain. The stones have been cast in cardboard, mulched and formed from moving boxes used by the artist when moving between different homes around Wicklow. Malone-Murphy has always been able to view the mountains from which these stones have been gathered and relied upon orientating himself through a geography of grief as well as the land. Grief and Its Emblems Are Inseparable reflects the landscapes that have been transformed through loss by becoming containers for grief.
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