Elva Mulchrone lives and works in Dublin.
She is an alumnus of Trinity College Dublin (Economics) and NCAD (Fine Art-Painting), Dublin. She pursued an MA in painting at Royal College of Art London 2018-2020.
Mulchrone presented her solo show Res Ipsa Loquitur with Gibbons & Nicholas (November 2020-online), a solo show Building Blocks at the Blyth Gallery, Imperial College London, ( January 2020), and her debut solo show Irrational Exuberance with Eight Gallery, Dublin ( March 2018).
Selected recent group exhibitions include The 191st RHA Annual Exhibition 2021, Highlanes Gallery Open Submission 2020, Drogheda, The Future is Clean and Round (2 person show)at Gallery 126, Galway, 2020, The 190th RHA Annual Exhibition, 2020, The Distance Between, (3 person show) the Hockney Gallery (London), 2019 Art on Paper (NYC) 2019, Arrival, Municipal DLR Lexicon, Dublin, Cairde Visual, The Model, Sligo, and The Rua Red Winter Open.
She has been awarded grants and bursaries including The Mainie Jellet travel Bursary, The Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award, The Emerging Artist Bursary from DLR County Council and is included in Infrastructure-Fingals Public Art Programme 2017-2021. She was awarded an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland in June 2021. Her work is in the OPW and the TCD and DCU collections.
She has been selected as Dublin City University Visual Artist in Residence 2022/23 in All Hallow’s Campus in collaboration with Fire Station Artist Studios.
