Madelaine Hanman Murphy,
HanmanMurphy Studios, Leigh Marina, High St, Leigh-on-Sea Essex SS9 2ES
⚓︎ 07545 375346 or plumbeum@gmail.com
statement
I currently work within a range of strands, engaging with objects and installations in a socially-engaged practice. I have a penchant for birdboxes, shrines, vanitas and memoria. The material and metaphoric qualities of objects either existing, or of my own making, aim to convey humorous perspectives on futility and frustration. I'm interested in the relationship between word and image, the context of the object, and the digital and social remnants of the lifespan of some very short-lived works.
CV
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Teaching
2007- 2009 Head of Art, The King John School, Essex 2001- 2007 Head of Art, De La Salle School, Essex 1996- 2001 Lecturer in Ceramics & Cultural Studies, Course Leader HND Ceramics, Pathway Leader 3D FoundationStudies, BND 3D Design, BND Display Design, The South Essex College Qualifications 2006-2009 MA Contemporary Fine Art and Pedagogy, Goldsmiths 2002 QTS Status, Anglia Polytechnic University 1996-1997 PGCE, University of Greenwich (FE/HE) 1995-1996 MA Sculptural Ceramics, University of Wales 1992-1994 BA (Hons) 2:1 Fine Craft Design, University of Ulster, Belfast 1989-1992 NCEA Diploma, Ceramics and Textiles, Crawford College of Art, Ireland Workshops I teach 1:1, or small groups with a range of clients from private groups to artists and schools, with experience in Further and Higher, Secondary and Primary sectors. Clients include www.disabilityessex.org, www.t-a-p.org.uk, and Henrietta Barnett School, Great Baddow High School, Leigh Art Trail and Billericay Art Trail. I currently teach in my studio. Business I work in porcelain, making presentation tableware, cake stands for very predial occasions, and porcelain button greeting cards: www.waterloohouseporcelain.com My husband and I work on public art: collaboration • participation • installations & sculptural commissions : www.hanmanmurphy.com Collections “Shrines to childhood sweeties (beach huts)” 2010, Contemporary Ceramics Permanent Collection, Chelmsford Museum |
Galleries
Lavitt Gallery, Ireland Seapictures Gallery, Suffolk Regular exhibitor with Anglian Potters, UK 2019/2020 Mayflower Harwich Commission: A new Public Sculpture celebrating 400 years of the Mayflower Ship and the initiation of the Mayflower Journey from Harwich. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-48912877 https://harwichmayflower.weebly.com My husband and I built our live/work barge in the hull of a Thames estuary Hopper barge, berthed at Leigh Marina, so we're not far from the studios. 2017-2018 HanmanMurphy moved to Leigh Marina. We set up studio here with a single phase and three phase kiln electric kilns, Raku kiln. We have installed a Laser Gas kiln; Shimpo RK2 and a Podmore wheel, extruder, spray gun and compressor, spray booth and facilities for glazing. Commission "Treetops" for Marketfield School, Essex 2016 was a very busy year - www.hanmanmurphy.com/projects www.pearlandblack.com/Madelaine Artist in Residence, Leigh Community Centre, Essex SS9 1SP. ongoing: www.hanmanmurphy.com/affordableartwall 2015 I've been developing a range of greeting cards with porcelain buttons www.waterloohouseporcelain.com, and I'll be delighted to have my work in Fortnum & Masons, London, for Valentines day and Mothers day 2016. Regular exhibitor with Anglian Potters & private commissions undertaken. 2014 Section 106 Commission, Sculpture for Railway Station, http://freeportart.weebly.com 2013 • firstsite Collectors’ Group Award • Installation “Wateringhole" site specific sculpture, Ugos Cafe Bar; HanmanMurphy guests, www.leigharttrail.com • Commission: St Georges C of E Primary School, Great Bromley, Essex, tile mural with glass • 'Good for Leigh' Award, Leigh Town Council, for artistic services to the community Founder member of www.estuarygallerycoop.com selected exhibitions Dolby Gallery, Peterborough; 55th Essex Open, Beecroft Gallery, Essex, UK Glucksman Gallery; Lavit Gallery; Cork Craft and Design, Ireland 2012 Commission: www.sparkswillfly.org.uk Mixed media participative sculpture, Rochford District Council selected exhibitions Cambridge Contemporary Arts; Dolby Gallery, Peterborough; Reunion Gallery, Felixstowe, UK; Glucksman Gallery, Ireland 2011 Project management: • ‘Dovecote’, Arts Council funded public-participative, artist collaborative coastal touring project http://thamesestuarydovecote.weebly.com • ‘Safety Helmets Must Be Worn’, Artists Books and Sketchbooks, artistsmeet.org, Catalogue Editor: www.blurb.com/bookstore/safetyhelmetsmustbeworn •Book Art Fair, www.artbookart.weebly.com 2011 selected exhibitions
Ceramics: Dolby Gallery, Northants, UK; Estuary Gallery, Leigh On Sea, UK; Appleyard Gallery, Norfolk; Glucksman Gallery, Ireland • bird-box/blog installation, http://queenofjamtarts.blogspot.co.uk for www.artside.org.uk • artbookart event www.artside.org.uk, Southend On Sea vimeo.com/35271840
• Vanitas series, Book Art Fair, www.leigharttrail.com • Pecha Kucha, www.metalculture.com 2010-11 • Lead facilitator for artistsmeet.org, socially engaged artists group at www.t-a-p.org.uk • Commission: sculptures, stormcreative.co.uk • Set of Odd Volumes: series of artists book workshops for Westborough Primary School, CoExist at TAP, & Henrietta Barnett School for Girls selected exhibitions Ceramics: Off The Shelf, Saltburn Artists Projects; • Navigation series, Seasider Pop-up shop, Holborn & www.artside.org.uk, Southend On Sea • Vanitas series, Set of Odd Volumes, www.t-a-p.org.uk 2009 • Installation: 'ArtVend', collaboration, Village Green, Metalculture.com •Project management: LOVE: A Womens Collective, Faux Arts Workshop, facebook.com/faux-workshopgallery, & Catalogue Editor: www.blurb.com/bookstore/valentines’09 -Advocate for 'Sketchbooks In Schools' accessart.org.uk/sketchbook selected exhibitions • Let's Play series, 'Come Together’ www.t-a-p.org.uk & www.leigharttrail.com • Artists Books & Sketchbooks, at, Space Gallery, Hackney, & Catalogue editor: www.blurb.com/bookstore/at 2001 to 2011: Leigh Art Trail, Essex, Exhibitor, Education Co-ordinator 2003-2005, Events Organiser 2010-2011 |
