Idris Murphy is an abstract expressionist, typically taking the landscape as his subject. Born 1949, Sydney. Diploma (painting) NAS; postgraduate painting and printmaking Winchester; Grad Dip Education SCAE; Doctorate of Creative Arts UoW. Currently Lecturer, COFA, UNSW. More than 20 solo exhibitions and many group exhibitions including Wynne, Sulman, King Street on Burton, Melbourne Art Fair, Ivan Dougherty. Further travel studies included extensive journies throughout UK, Europe and USA. Murphy’s style is one of abstract expressionism, using the landscape as his subject.
Murphy has exhibited regularly at mainstream galleries since the 1970s, and has exhibited regularly in the Sulmann and Wynn prizes. Currently represented by commericail galleries such as Axia and John Gordon Gallery.
Murphy is currently head of Drawing Studies at the School Of Fine Arts, UNSW.
Awards include the Hunters Hill Art Award, Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Travel Fellowship, Arts Council Special Travel Grant, Rockhampton Art Prize, Dyason bequest fund for Australian Artists overseas, Moya Doring Memorial Residence, Paris, Artist Lithographer in Residence, AGNSW, French Government Studio, Paris, Tyrone Gutherie Centre, Ireland, Irish Art Council Studio.
Parliament House Canberra, Biblioteque National de Paris, National Library, Canberra
Telstra Collection Melbourne, State Library New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Bendigo Regional Gallery, Westpac Collection, Australian Art Investment Trust.
References:
McCulloch, Alan and Susan. Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 3rd Edition, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1994. Page 506. Germaine, Max. Artists and Galleries of Australia, Volumes 1 & 2, Third Edition. Craftsman Press, Sydney, 1990. Page 493.