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Born in London, Noel Murphy studied in Dublin at NCAD and has an honours degree in Fine Art (Painting) from the University of Ulster, Belfast. He graduated in 1994, the same year in which he won the Bass Ireland Prize; three years later he also received the Ireland Fund of Great Britain Annual Arts Award. He has held several solo exhibitions with the Gorry Gallery, Dublin, and the Emer Gallery, Befast, and in 2003 was commissioned to paint The Northern Ireland Assembly in Session, becoming only the second artist to do so in the history of the State. Represented in the collections of the Ulster Museum and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland among others.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1990 Emer Gallery, Belfast
1993 Emer Gallery, Belfast
1995 One Oxford Street Gallery, Belfast
1996 Gorry Gallery, Dublin
2000 Gorry Gallery, Dublin
2002 Gorry Gallery, Dublin
2004 Emer Gallery, Belfast
2005 Emer Gallery, Belfast
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1992-96 ‘Belfast Young Contemporaries’,
One Oxford Street Gallery, Belfast
1993 Boyle Arts Festival
1990-99 RUA Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2003 Boyle Arts Festival
West Belfast Festival
2004 Boyle Arts Festival
2005 Boyle Arts Festival
AWARDS
1994 Bass Ireland Prize, ‘Belfast Young Contemporaries’, One Oxford Street Gallery, Belfast
1997 The Ireland Fund of Great Britain Annual Arts Award
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ulster Museum
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
The Burns Library, Boston College
The National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland
Bass Ireland Ltd
Kelly’s Collection, Rosslare
Parliament Buildings, Stormont
UTV
Boyle Arts Civic Collection
AIB
COMMISSIONS
The Northern Ireland Assembly in Session', Senate Chamber, Parliament Buildings, Stormont
FILMS
John T Davis, “A House Divided”, RTE, 2003
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