Orlagh Murphy

New Blog

2012-02-02T12:59:00.003Z

I've moved my blog to Tumblr (for the moment). Please visit it here!

Dublin Art Book Fair 2011

2011-12-01T16:58:00.005Z

MA: Illustration - Authorial Practice made a little zine called 'Ways to Hide a Rag Fief' for the Dublin Art Book Fair, which launches tonight and runs until Sunday. Above is my entry and you can see the rest here.

Zouch & Home

2011-08-06T20:13:00.009+01:00

Got a nice feature on Zouch Magazine's Art Shots, thank you Jeff. Also I am back from 5 months in South America and looking forward to getting back to work and relocating to Cornwall. Exciting times.

Glasser - Apply

2011-02-20T16:34:00.002Z

[heart]

That's a bit sketch

2011-02-10T20:58:00.009Z

I'm making this guy a wife for valentines day so I needed a chick's head. I have her now but here are some rough sketchy sketches of potential candidates including Queen Elizabeth I, Claire Danes & Virginia Woolf...

Vivian Maier

2011-02-07T01:33:00.001Z

Vivian Maier died at 83 in 2009. In her spare time she liked to walk the streets and take photos but she didn't really go on about it so it was basically a secret.

In 2007 an auctioneer bought a box of over 100,000 of Vivian's negatives and unprocessed films. Turns out she was 'one of greatest street photographers of her day' and never bothered to tell anyone.

Unbelievable. Amazing. Sad. Inspiring.

Sure why not

2011-02-03T21:07:00.004Z

Kruder & Dorfmeister

2011-02-03T21:01:00.006Z

1st Of Tha Month - Sweet tune

Friends in Film

2011-01-29T20:49:00.011Z

Super-lifelong-amiga Sorcha O’Beirne was Production Manager on Billy & Chuck, a short film by Lee Cronin. The screening is at the end of next month but judging on the trailer, it’s going to be awesome:

And a fine gentleman by the name of Gary White was Producer of this very short but very good documentary called Dogfight about the now extinct Salthill Airshow (Galway, Ireland):

My claim to fame is that Billy & Chuck might feature some of my Dad’s military gear, which was lent to the prop department. Hee hee.

Bobbing

2011-01-16T19:55:00.017Z

My good friend Fiona gave me this gorgeous Origami Bird Mobile for Christmas [Thanks Fi]. I have it hanging beside my desk. I'll be busy working and then I'll notice the birds bobbing away... gives me a sense of enormous well being and then I'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to procrastination.
[I'm no photographer but click to enlarge]

Semi-Permanent Book 2

2011-01-03T00:30:00.012Z

I'm a little late putting up these photos but nonetheless... I was very pleased to be featured in Semi-Permanent's Book Two. There were lots of amazing artists involved and I was chuffed to appear beside Australian artist Jessica Bellman.

Happy Christmas!

2010-12-25T13:55:00.005Z

My Christmas morning usually entails chocolate (coins this year) and a new book (A signed copy of Simon Garfield's Just My Type). We're a man down this Christmas (one brother in Vancouver) so it's just the 4 of us and the dog... eating, drinking and squabbling the day through. Love it.

FlyLo + Thom

2010-12-20T11:39:00.002Z

Yes, this is good.

Lovely Cards / Worthy Cause

2010-12-08T13:34:00.002Z

A friend Nessa Darcy designed these beautiful Christmas cards and is selling them in aid of the charity Azafady Madagascar. To purchase donate to her fundraising page (incl. €2.70 for postage) and email her your details: cakesforlemurs{at}gmail.com

Young Montana

2010-12-07T13:22:00.003Z

Thanks to Al, I can't get enough of this man right now.

Dobie - Cloud 98 3/4

2010-11-25T22:09:00.004Z

This song reminds of being 13 or 14 on a family holiday to Kerry. I had this on tape (nicked off my brother) with a load of hip-hop/ambient/trip-hop stuff off late-night radio and I would keep rewinding it and playing it over and over and over. It's still great...

Twin Shadow

2010-11-04T20:25:00.001Z

Katie Kim

2010-09-30T20:47:00.001+01:00

Odessa

2010-09-13T20:04:00.000+01:00

Grizzly Mackerel

2010-06-24T11:48:00.002+01:00

Grizzly Bear - Cork, Fri
Mackerel & Sunshine - Kerry, Sat & Sun

Bring on the weekend.

Things I found...

2010-06-21T12:59:00.005+01:00

Just did a massive clear out of artwork from school, college and last two years. Found lots of funny and odd things. I used to say 'word' a lot. The rainbow flecks are coloured candy that we ran through the printing press with an etching.

I loved core year!

To Kerry!

2010-06-04T11:10:00.005+01:00

I'm heading to Kerry for the long weekend (+ one day) and the sun is shining right now so fingers crossed it lasts. These sunglasses are part of a new illustration to commemorate the Summer and volcanoes. Stay tuned.

Newsom Takes on Gaga

2010-06-01T10:46:00.003+01:00

This is funny. Go Newsom!

I am not a Gaga fan.

Love has arrived...

2010-05-20T11:19:00.007+01:00

My Love (Geneine Honey) brooches arrived! Loveliness all round.

All in All

2010-05-09T16:59:00.003+01:00

Great song from Broken Social Scene's Forgiveness Rock Record. Get this album!

More old photographs...

2010-04-13T13:05:00.005+01:00

Old images I worked on last week. These are the original scans, I like the oxidized discolouring.

Where is my mind?

2010-04-05T12:56:00.004+01:00

Maxence Cyrin covering a Pixies classic & one of my all-time favourite songs.

Come play with Letters!

2010-03-19T22:09:00.010Z

Just registered with Nate William's wonderful letterPLAYGROUND:

Good words.

2010-03-16T15:59:00.005Z

Fred Free is an American artist I came across on deviantART in 2007 and have followed ever since. He posted the following on his journal today and I found it so uplifting I'd like to share it...

"it's been 20 years since i quit my full time tedious and taxing architect job to go figure things out while wandering around europe for what seemed like forever at the time. it was about 7 weeks. i'm bringing it up (again) because the choice i made back then turned out to be a huge life-turning around move that affects everything about my world to this day. and all in a good way. so if you ever find yourself in a rut you think you're stuck in for the rest of time - a few years out of college like i was - or whenever - just do what you have to do and make your own life again. it'll most likely be worth it. [end of sermon]"

Image from Fred's deviantART page.

Theo learns Shakespeare

2010-03-10T16:05:00.001Z

Images from 1960's Ireland

2010-02-24T01:34:00.008Z

Amazing photos of 1960's Dublin from the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection at Indiana University (thank you Peter).

Joanna Newsom's Have One On Me

2010-02-23T15:35:00.002Z

Listen to the whole thing online, then buy it (legally).

I adore Up

2010-02-23T02:02:00.004Z

2010-02-01T23:38:00.001Z

USA Mum.

2010-01-07T20:54:00.013Z

At 23 as a newly qualified nurse my Mum went to live in the States and stayed there for nearly 2 years. With the help of a slide scanner we've been discovering forgotten images. These were considered 'bad photos' but I like them. Check out my Mum in reds, love it.

Himmler's Angora album.

2010-01-04T16:39:00.023Z

I was joking about how ridiculous[ly cute] Angora rabbits are and googling images of them when I came across this on Wiki. Bizarre.

Angora rabbits were raised in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau to provide fur for the linings of jackets for Luftwaffe pilots.

Many of the artifacts left by Nazi Germany could be considered bizarre. But few are as chilling as a beautifully bound volume covered in woven gray wool, titled "Angora." It belonged to one of history's most ruthless men, Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS in Nazi Germany and head of its concentration camps.

Himmler's "Angora" album, which he hid in a farmhouse with his other papers near the end of World War II, tells the story of the Angora rabbit project that operated in all the Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau.

Images from Wisconsin Historical Society. Article from Wikipedia.

Granny O'Grimm

2009-12-24T01:46:00.003Z

I think this is so funny. Watch the film too.

2009-12-19T15:58:00.007Z

Stones & Señoritas

2009-12-16T18:28:00.007Z

I watched Gimme Shelter at the weekend (the Maysles brothers documentary about the Rolling Stones 1969 tour, which culminated in Meredith Hunter's murder). Picture your parents’ generation; fresh faced, young, beautiful and out of their faces on mind altering drugs. Here's the Stones being moody with some attractive young ladies [click for a full view]:

Square Triangle Square

2009-12-14T22:01:00.003Z

Drop Cap & A.Bird

2009-12-08T14:07:00.015Z

ny excuse to use this. Jessica Hische is a very talented and prolific woman. Five day forecasts bring black tar rains and hellfire while handpicked handler's kid gloves tear at the inseams, their Halliburton attaché cases are useless, while Scotch-Guard Macintoshes shall be carbonized, now they're offering views of exiting empires, such breathtaking views of Scythian empires. Scythian empire, horsemen of the Russian steppe, Scythian empire, archers of an afterthought. Routed by Sarmatians, thwarted by the Thracians, Scythian empire. Kings of Macedonia and the Scythian empire.

Sustainable kittens.

2009-12-06T14:24:00.012Z

Winston c. 1940

2009-12-04T15:50:00.010Z

Pouting.

2009-12-03T23:09:00.008Z

This was one I found in the clear out (a sketch from a photo in which I'm 16 or 17). Will I still be pulling this face at 80?

Yes, more floating food.

2009-12-03T22:26:00.011Z

One of the final sketches and subsequent drawing for Truly Tasty cookbook cover. It's a wallpapered illustration, watercolour next, then Photoshop, a little more drawing, then PS again.

Babies.

2009-12-02T17:09:00.003Z

Yes, these ones are amazing but I still don't want one.

These aren't new.

2009-12-02T00:42:00.008Z

I think the first one is my favourite (my grandparents on their honeymoon). In the last photo my Mum is the blonde sitting on my Granny's knee.

Ireland in fog.

2009-11-29T13:41:00.014Z

It's hard to know where we're headed and how it will end.

Back in scrap business.

2009-11-26T14:59:00.016Z

I cleared out a decades worth of junk from several boxes last weekend. In the process I rediscovered lots of collected paper items that need scrap booking. So my scrapbooks are back with a vengeance and I’m going to try do at least three pages a week... Well that’s the aim anyway.

Incroyable...

2009-11-23T16:22:00.004Z

but really sad at the same time.

Saturation point.

2009-11-18T21:31:00.008Z

Something that was said to me today. This weather. My poor brain. And this photo from Iceland when we hid in the car and watched tourists get drenched.

Isn't she lovely?

2009-11-16T23:42:00.003Z

Found her on Gettys (hence the strip covering her... watermark).

Longing.

2009-11-16T23:21:00.009Z

I spent a few days in the South of France with family this Summer. It was to be the only sun, sea and heat I would experienced all year. Been going through the photos recently and now have a longing for that Deep Blue Sea.

Bike tree

2009-11-06T16:27:00.001Z

Only in Japan. So smart.

Marshmellows and tea.

2009-11-04T10:30:00.002Z

I'm late but this is a catchy Halloween tune.

So much for illustrations.

Music also:

2009-10-13T20:44:00.004+01:00

CANT (Chris Taylor) released this today on 7". It is beautiful.

The xx are all only 20 years old [sigh]. I found this track after I saw them on Later with Jools Holland. The kids are definitely getting cooler.

Click ALT + LINK to download.

This week I am...

2009-10-13T20:28:00.008+01:00

working on illustrations for an e-book about 'Creative Meditation'. Here's one:

Redwoods

2009-10-06T18:31:00.001+01:00

are amazing. Go trees.

Fox Snow Dive

2009-10-05T07:22:00.008+01:00

Neil made me me watch this>>>

Wonderful.

Of Lisbon

2009-10-04T17:26:00.008+01:00

Lisbon theme. Treaty. Photos. My parents are there now.
Picked these up last year at a market in Lisbon, Portugal. Beautiful ladies.

Some images from Counting Sheep:

2009-10-04T17:16:00.001+01:00

So this is my blog...

2009-10-04T17:14:00.002+01:00

I don't know how much I'll use this, I've been told it's a good idea. I'll do my best to post pages from my notebooks, sketches, finished pieces, nice links, images & thoughts.

Tall order.

Best,
O.