About me

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My name is Ríon Duffy Murphy (he/they). I am a textile artist based in Dublin, with a background in fine art textiles, activism, and gender studies. My work explores queerness, intimacy, mental health, and gender through playful, technicolour pieces, most recently 3D soft sculptures.

Alongside my personal practice, I have been co-director of the trans-led, anticapitalist art collective gender.RIP since 2019. As part of gender.RIP I have helped build a reputation for facilitating exciting, inclusive events and workshops, and was an artist mentor in A4Sounds Studio’s We Only Want the Earth residency programme for 3 years.

In 2023 I founded the free, independent Irish arts magazine Lemon Piglet with designer Ren McDonagh. You can find out more about it on our website.

I am a member of Visual Artists Ireland, a studio member at A4Sounds Studios, Dublin. I was awarded the Arts Council Agility Award in 2023.

Exhibitions + Events

Text-ture
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), South Korea.
Group exhibition. (10/07/2024 - 28/07/2024)

GIRLS + GUTS
Fringe Arts Bath
Group exhibition. (29/05/24 - 09/06/24)

Small Things Like These
LHQ Gallery, Cork.
Group exhibition. (01/12/2023 - 22/12/2023)

Dunamaise Winter Show 2023
Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise.
Group exhibition. (17/11/2023 - 13/01/2024)

The Rest
126 Gallery, Galway.
Group exhibition. (01/09/2023 - 17/09/2023)

Mermaid 21st Anniversary Exhibition
Mermaid Art Centre Bray.
Group exhibition. (June - September 2023)

Mood Muse: Hope
Featured in Mood Muse Collective’s 1st volume.
Based in the UK. (2023)

Ouch! Collective Volume 2
Featured in Ouch! Collective’s 2nd volume.
Based in Oakland, California. (2023)

The Magic of Transformation
D31 Gallery, Doncaster, England.
Group exhibition. (22/04/2023 - 17/04/2023)

SCAR
The House of Smalls Gallery, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England.
Group exhibition. (8 - 22/04/2023)

Shapes and Things
Shapes and Things Collective.
Online group exhibition. (07/04/2023, ongoing)

HIJINX: a trans cabaret
A4Sounds, Dublin.
Planned, branded, publicised and facilitated a cabaret performance night as part of gender.RIP. Funded by Dublin Pride and the Dept. of Culture, as part of the Dublin Pride 2022 programme of events. (17/06/2022)

rEVOLUTION PARTY
A4Sounds, Dublin.
Planned, branded, publicised and facilitated a cabaret performance night as part of gender.RIP collective. Part of A4Sounds’ 2022 We Only Want The Earth programme of events. (05/03/2022)

Special Edition Conspiracy Club in collaboration with BeLonGTo
Planned and facilitated an art club and discussion group, tailored to BeLonGTo’s trans young group, as part of gender.RIP collective. (02/12/2020)

Utopia or Bust: Manifestos for a New Era
Project Arts Centre Dublin and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.
Collaborative piece, created by gender.RIP collective, Commissioned by Dublin Fringe. (07 - 20/09/2020)

Happy New Leap Year: The Party
A4Sounds, Dublin.
Planned and facilitated a cabaret performance night as part of gender.RIP collective. Part of A4Sounds’ We Only Want The Earth event programme 2020. (29/02/2020)

Post Mortem Anniversary Event
A4Sounds, Dublin.
Planned and facilitated a cabaret performance night as part of gender.RIP collective. (10/01/2020)

Various Online Events
Organised and facilitated several online art crits, drawing workshops, and art clubs as part of gender.RIP collective. (2019 - Present)

Fully Automated Luxury Gender Oasis
Quarter Block Party Festival, Cork.
Assisted in curating and exhibited work as part of a group exhibition. (08 - 10/02/2019)

gender.RIP Conspiracy Clubs
Recurring series of art clubs. Host venues include the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Quarter Block Party Cork, NCAD Gallery, and A4Sounds Studios. Organised and facilitated as part of gender.RIP collective. (2018 - present)

gender.RIP @ NCAD
National College of Art & Design Gallery, Dublin.
Group exhibition. (17/12/2018 - 25/01/2019)

Trans Live Art Salon
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
Artist talk on work I was commissioned to create in response to Becoming Christine by Amanda Dunsmore (17/09/18)

Common Grounds Collective’s ArtSpace
The Workman’s Bar & Club.
Group exhibition. (21/11/17)

Galleries of the Mind
The Workman’s Bar & Club.
Group exhibition. (22/10/17 )

Attempt Two
Eblana House, Dublin.
Curated and displayed work as part of a group exhibition. (27 - 28/07/17)

How Dare You
ArtBox, Dublin.
Curated and displayed work as part of a group exhibition. (22/05/17 - 28/05/17)

Awards + Experience