Gerry Murphy will undertake two workshops at Cork City Library and Douglas Library, with members of the public with the KinShip Art Project.
Gerry Murphy will undertake two workshops at Cork City Library and Douglas Library, with members of the public as part of his current Artist Placement with the KinShip Art Project at Tramore Valley Park Cork.
The KinShip Art Project is a long-term public artwork, developing a variety of socially engaged cultural initiatives at Tramore Valley Park, starting in 2022. Led by artists LennonTaylor (Marilyn Lennon and Seán Taylor), in partnership with Cork City Council, the aim of the KinShip Art Project is to develop a kin-like connection between all inhabitants of Tramore Valley Park and its surrounding community. The project is supported by Creative Ireland’s Creative Climate Action Fund. https://www.corkcity.ie/en/kinship/
Both workshops are free, places are limited.
Gerry Murphy, born in Cork in 1952. His latest collection is The Humours of Nothingness (2020). He has published two chapbooks with Southword Editions, My Life as a Stalinist and Kissing Maura O’Keeffe, as well as Pocket Apocalypse, his translations of the Polish poet Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska. Murphy’s own poems form the basis for a live poetry-and-music show by Crazy Dog Audio Theatre, entitled The People’s Republic of Gerry Murphy, which ran at the Cork Guinness Jazz Festival in 2010 to considerable critical success. He is a member of Aosdána.