Bluecoat Display Centre 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.