Jay Murphy

Artist: Jay Murphy
Title: Jimena de la Frontera
Medium: Oil on canvas board

Born in Dublin. Studied fine art at Dunlaoghaire School of Art and Central School, London.

Artists' Groups and Organisations:
Founder Member of "Fior Uisce" in Dublin and later the "Western Artists".Both independent artists organisations put on exhibitions annually for a number of years.
Member of the "Island Connection" group of painters and sculptors which arranged exhibitions on various European islands, from Inishbofin and Inishmore to Malta and Tenerife etc..
Member of AKIN, a group of five artists, an offshoot of Westerns Artists. Chairperson of AKIN in 88/89.
2002 AKIN conducted a national tour exhibiting in ten arts centres throughout Ireland.
2003 AKIN major exhibition for which the group received a Galway County Council Arts Award.

For more information see www.jaymurphy.ie