We are delighted announce that our featured ‘In the Window’ artist for the 2024 Liverpool Irish Festival is Michael Murphy. His work will be in the window on College Lane throughout October 2024.
Michael’s practice is rooted in the use of traditional tooling to produce modern and innovative forms in both furniture and sculpture.
His current body of work centres around the death of the Ash tree. We watch as our hedgerow is forever transformed, a piece of nature soon to be confined to memory. His work aims to use these Ash trees and immortalise them in sculpture, exploring the limits of how thin he can turn them, having them drift into a liminal space between existence and non-existence which is the state of their species. These works have a sense of ritual about them, Michael likes to think of himself as exhuming the tree, gathering up it’s limbs and allowing them to be reborn as tactile objects.
Join us for a Meet the Maker event with Michael on Friday 18 October 2024. Click here to find out details and how to book.
Liverpool Irish Festival brings Liverpool and Ireland closer together using arts and culture. It is this use of arts and culture as an instrument for observing, learning, sharing and debating Irishness, in the particular context of Liverpool, which makes the Festival unique.
Liverpool Irish Festival represent Northern Ireland, the Republic and the Irish diaspora’s creativity throughout the festival. Their annual thematic approach to programming, critical-thought and curation develops depth, resonance and inclusion.
