Artwork by Pauline Murphy: All things scary- The Halloween Art Show Balla Ban Art Gallery 23/10/10

About The Artist

Pauline Murphy is an up and coming artist from Armagh in Northern Ireland. At the age of 20 Pauline has already had her work in the Sol Art gallery's exhibition in Armagh City Hotel and debuted her first exhibition in Dublin during the Summer 2010 in the Green Gallery in St Stephen's Green Centre. Following on from the success of the Green Gallery exhibition in August 2010, Pauline had her work exhibiting in the BallaBan Art Gallery in the Westbury Mall in Dublin. She had her work shown in two exhibitions for Arthur's Day and Dublin Fashion week September 2010. For Halloween Pauline had her work in the Balla Ban Art Gallery's ' The Halloween Show and All things Scary' Exhibition alongside, Jonathan Barry, Frank O'Dea, FINK, Tom Byrne, William Mulhall and others.

Her work is currently featured on the newirishart website and she also has her work on this blogsite. She also has her own independent website. Her blogsite has had international interest and views from 6 continents, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Latvia, Spain, Italy, Russia, the Netherlands,Greece, Denmark and Israel from Europe. China and India from Asia, Austrailia and New Zealand from Australasia, Ecuador from South America, Ghana from Africa and the USA.

You can now view my art on Irish-Art.com (http://www.irish-art.com/irishartists.php?letter=M)

Pauline focuses nearly entirely on portraiture and has in her collection celebrities such as Bono, U2, Coldplay, Michael Jackson, Johnny Depp, Sex and the city, Lady GaGa and famous figures such as Barack Obama and Martin Luther King amongst her collection. She uses a variety of mediums to complete her work, but her favourite medium is pencil. At this young age, Pauline is set to flourish in the art world and especially that of Irish Portraiture.
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Saturday, 23 October 2010

All things scary- The Halloween Art Show Balla Ban Art Gallery 23/10/10 - 2/11/ 10

Artwork by Pauline Murphy

“All things scary – The Halloween Show”

Balla Bán Art Gallery proudly presents “All things scary – the Halloween Show” which runs from Saturday 23rd October to Tuesday 2nd November in the gallery located at the Westbury Mall (off Grafton Street). Artist and professionally book illustrator, Jonathan Barry has illustrated over sixty books including Dracula and Frankenstein in the best selling Wordsworth Classics in the UK. Jonathan Barry specialises in painting famous scenes from literature and his paintings have sold worldwide, including at Sotheby’s in London. Along with Jonathan, other artists exhibiting at this themed exhibition include Frank O’Dea, Jim Donnelly, William Mulhall, FINK, Pauline Murphy, Donna Cooney and Tom Byrne .
Bring all the family along and get into the Halloween fun which promises a few scary pieces of art!