Charlie Murphy

Charlie Murphy has established a vibrant, interdisciplinary art practice spanning dynamic sculptural installations, digital media, performance and live events for many arts, science, public health, museum and community contexts.

She is also an experienced and innovative photographer and videographer for a wide range of commercial and educational clientele.

Charlie uses properties of glass, light, sculpture, photography, performance and video to create dramatic sculptural installations, performances and events which explore material questions about our bodies, health & relationships.  Widely known for her popular touring ‘kiss-in’ events, her projects often involve participation and collaboration of some kind.

She was a co-director & visual arts lead of Created Out of Mind at Wellcome Collection, London, (2016-18). During this residency she initiated Brains in a Dish, a high impact art-science project inspired by cutting edge dementia research. This project deepens public understanding of dementia & brain health through glass, light, photography, video & performance. Collaborations with audiences, scientists & engineers have evolved multiple immersive installations, film screenings and participation events exploring the brain, desire, anatomy and relationships.

Presentation highlights include her solo exhibition for Cooper Gallery, Barnsley Museums (2022-3, supported by ACE & ARUK), group exhibitions including Lowry (2019-20), Royal Festival Hall (2018), Normal? Festival (2017&18), Anatomy of Desire, (1999 – 2011; Wellcome, 2011); The Big Wheel (Big Dance, Tate, 2008); Edinburgh Fringe (2006); New Forest Pavilion (Venice, 2003) and her solo mexhibition, The Art of Tickling Trout (ArtSway, 2001-03).

An experienced arts educator,  Charlie contributed to many postgraduate and graduate programmes.Her workshops and performative lectures consider and explore expanded forms of photography and moving image. Her workshops explore and celebrate physical and conceptual principles of photography and the moving image and reference an array of references across live art, science communication, analogue & digital processes, greenscreen technologies, machine vision, dance and choreography.