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T.C. Murphy was born in Walkinstown, County Dublin in 1953. He went to school in Drimnage Castle which he left at the
age of 16 to take up an apprenticeship in the jewellery trade with Irish Diamond Jewellers. After four years he became restless
and travelled to Denmark. Here he worked initially as a cutler, then became a forester and even spent some time labouring
in a steelworks. It was during this period that T.C. began to paint.
He subsequently moved to Christiana an experimental
commune south of Copenhagen where he devoted himself to his art. He spent four years in the artist's colony and sensing a
Celtic impulse coming through his work, he returned to Ireland in 1988 to get closer to his roots.
Dublin-born, self-taught artist, known for his violently bright palette and "spiky manner of painting". Influenced by
Edward Munch and the Cobra School of North European painting. Brighid McLaughlin writes: "Murphy's sensibility is lurid, the
imagery overt. These are things done with conviction" (Oriel Gallery catalogue).
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