For the months of November, December 2025 and January 2026, Hugh Lane Gallery & Basic Talks are delighted to have the Basic Talks programme hosted by the TU Dublin School of Art & Design, Grangegorman, Dublin 7. Full details on how to get to this location will be posted on this page.
Join us for a Basic Talks with Shane Malone-Murphy.
Shane Malone-Murphy is an artist from Co. Wicklow who examines the histories of land use and ownership through the lens of grief. By positioning grief as a catalyst for an urgent rethinking of our attachments to place and to one another, he aims to carve out more generous epistemologies of grief and landscape. Working between sculpture and drawing, and using gathered materials such as glass, soot, ash, and clay, his works are often presented in states of transition. Objects lean, fabrics hang, one thing bears the weight of another. These provisional arrangements in unstable forms complicate the boundary between structure and collapse, suggesting a vocabulary of support that is attentive, rather than secure.
Shane Malone-Murphy is a graduate of Sculpture and Combined Media at LSAD (2023) and holds a Professional Certificate in Sustainable Exhibition Making from NCAD (2024). He works with Kunstverein Aughrim as Technical Support and Sustainability Consultant. Selected solo and group exhibitions include Say Again, This Place, Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely (2025), From Dust, Platform Arts, Belfast (2025), and Daisy, Daisy-, The Complex, Dublin (2024), Take Care To Leave A Trace, Luan Gallery, Athlone (2024). Other highlights include being selected for the Student Forum at The Douglas Hyde Gallery (2024), Exhibition Mediator for the Irish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, receiving the Arts Council Agility Award (2024), and research funding from the Wicklow County Artist Scheme (2024). Malone-Murphy was also shortlisted for the Derek Hill Residency Award at the British School at Rome.
Free, book or come on the day subject to availability.
Basic Talks is a series of talks with leading contemporary practitioners, taking place at the Hugh Lane Gallery. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is a platform for lectures, workshops, presentations, and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers, and critics who will generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art. BASIC TALKS is a collaboration between Basic Space and the Hugh Lane Gallery, exploring alternatives in the dissemination of contemporary art and its discourses.
