Jack Murphy

A series of brightly coloured objects which have been distorted, in the background an image of an arm with a bird bird resting upon it reaches forwards

An interior glasshouse room filled with a variety of plants and trees, with a large orange wooden tree shaped sculpture on the right hand side.

An interior glasshouse room filled with a variety of plants and trees, with a small sculptures are positioned in front of plants.

A photo of the interior of a glasshouse containing a brightly coloured art installation with purple, black and green fabric surrounding a water fountain. A variety of plants are positioned on either side of the artwork.

An interior view of a glasshouse room with plants lining the walls on either side

The image shown above represent the Glasgow International 2024 project that Jack Murphy is participating in, not the artist’s individual practice.

Jack Murphy is a low-fi DIY cheapskate ugly artist. Cutthroat mutant gherkins and swirling wormholes in thigh-high heels haunt their dreams leaving them dizzy and dopey, hazily piecing together remembered scraps of a fermented reality. Through animation, painting, drawing and sculpture Jack investigates ideas of science fiction, worship and utopia for monstrous bodies from a place soaked in filth and brine. Not quite aligned with either their background in illustration or their current proximity to the fine art world, their practice operates from the centre of a Venn diagram.

Projects

Programme

Jack Murphy

Unnatural* Urges

Queen's Park Glasshouse