Patrick Murphy is a British artist, designer and curator. His work is exhibited internationally and held in public and private collections. He lives and works in

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, South Yorkshire.

Biography

He works across a wide range of media and projects from large scale public art installations and interventions to print and sculptural work. In 2021 the French city of Le Havre (UNESCO World Heritage Site) became the site of Murphys largest public art commission which saw installation of 200 life-size seagull sculptures on the facade of the cities Town Hall

Other commissions for large scale public art include "Belonging" at

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for

Liverpool Biennial Liverpool Biennial is the largest international contemporary art festival in the United Kingdom. Since its launch in 1998, Liverpool Biennial has commissioned over 380 new artworks and presented work by over 530 artists from around the world. ...

, "In pursuit of Happiness" at the Kunstenfestival in Watou, Belgium, "Flock" installation in

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and the

House of St Barnabas The House of St Barnabas, at 1 Greek Street, Soho, is a Grade I Listed Georgian building in London notable for its rococo plasterwork interiors and for other architectural features. Since 1862 the House has been run as a charity to help those ...

, London, "Strata", a large scale building art intervention, His work has appeared in ''Creative Review'', ''It's Nice That'', ''Dezeen'', ''The Guardian'', BBC Radio 4, Monocle - Section D, and ''The Telegraph''. He is the founder and director of MADE NORTH and Sheffield Design Week and the founder of Modernist Guides. In 2015, he curated the British Road Sign Project, celebrating the road signs designed by

Jock Kinneir Richard "Jock" Kinneir (11 February 1917 – 23 August 1994) was a British typographer and graphic designer who, with his colleague Margaret Calvert, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies, and ...

and

Margaret Calvert Margaret Vivienne Calvert (born 1936) is a British typographer and graphic designer who, with colleague Jock Kinneir, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies, and British Overseas Territories, as we ...

in 1965. Murphy invited more than 50 leading artists and designers to create their own signs which were displayed at the

Design Museum The Design Museum in Kensington, London, England, exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. The museum operates as a registered charity, and all fund ...

and along the

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. Curating leading design exhibitions and projects for others including curating the MADE NORTH Gallery programme and annual conference. Major projects have included "Revolutions from Gatefold to Download", a history of the album cover to the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the British Road Sign Project in 2016. at the

, London.

References

External links

Official website

MADE NORTH

Modernist

British Road Sign Project
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