Elva Mulchrone is a visual artist whose practice is concerned with the rhythm in relationships, the role of structures, the cyclical nature and consequences of repeat patterns in both a societal and personal domain.
Conceptually driven, her practice examines the essential components of aesthetics, a narrative response to social science concerns and is committed to an examination of the parallels between mathematics, economics, aesthetics and choreography.
Currently living in Dublin.
2018 — 2022*
MA in Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2012 — 2016
Fine Art (Paint) National College of Art and Design,
Dublin
Apr — Sep 2015
Fine Art (Paint) University of the arts (Universität der Künste), Berlin. Research at WZB (Berlin Social Science Centre).
2008 – 2009
Dip. Hons: History of European Painting
Trinity College Dublin
1993 – 2005
Solicitor
Dublin
1987 – 1991
Economics and Business
Trinity College Dublin
*Completed in June 2022 (post-leave of absence due to Covid-19 from May 2019)
Exhibitions & Awards
April 2024 Premise (group show), Queen Alexandra’s House, London
February – March 2024 At day’s end, the whole sky, two person show with Brian Duggan, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
January 2024 Dublin City Council Incubation Space Award 2024
October – January 2024 First Biennial Exhibition, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Museum of Art, Mayo
July – August 2023 CONNECTIONS, King House, Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon
May – July 2023 193rd Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
March – April 2023 Eudaimonia dreaming (solo show), St Patricks Campus, Dublin City University, Dublin
November 2022 The Pleasure Ground, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin
September – October 2022 As We Are (solo show), The Quadrangle, Dublin City University, Dublin
May – July 2022 192nd Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
June 2022 M.A. Painting Grad Show, Royal College of Art, London
April 2022 Boston To Lambeth – The Walls Within, Studio 6 Free Space, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
March 2022 – December 2023 DCU Visual Artist in Residence 2022/23 in All Hallow’s Campus in collaboration with Fire Station Artist Studios.
March 2022 Fulbright Scholar Finalist, Visual Art
September – October 2021 191st Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
June 2021 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland
October – December 2020 190th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
October – November 2020 Res Ipsa Loquitur, Gibbons & Nicholas
October 2020 Stage 2 artist in John Moore’s Painting Prize
June – July 2020 Highlanes Open Submission Exhibition, Highlanes Gallery, Droheda, Ireland
March 2020 The future is clean and round (duo show with Rosa Mäkelä) 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland
January 2020 Building Blocks (solo show), Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London
November 2019 VUE, Gibbons & Nicholas, Dublin
June – September 2019 Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Shortlist Exhibition, Ashurst Offices, London
March 2019 BREXHIBITION, Courtyard Galleries, RCA London
March 2019 Art On Paper, NYC
March 2019 The Distance Between, Hockney Gallery, RCA London
January 2019 WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London
May 2018 Judging panel of The Central Bank of Ireland Nationwide Schools Art Competition to create an
artwork to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of The Central Bank.
May – August 2018 188th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
March 2018 Irrational Exuberance (debut solo show), Eight Gallery, Dublin
December 2017 — January 2018 Arrival, Municipal Gallery DLR Lexicon, Dublin
November 2017 VUE, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
August 2017 Intinc Art Residency, Singapore
July — August 2017 Cairde Visual, The Model, Sligo
May — August 2017 187th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
January 2017 Shortlisted for UCD Artist in Residence 2017-2018
November/December 2016 CONTEXT Art Miami, Florida
November/December 2016 Rua Red Winter Open, Dublin
November 2016 VUE, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
October 2016 Emerging Artist Bursary DLR
September — October 2016 Emerging Artists Exhibition, St Patricks Hospital, Dublin
June 2016 NCAD Graduate Showcase
April 2016 Thomas Dammann Trust Award 2016 to conduct research at Columbia University, NYC
March 2016 Shuffle Show, Institut Fur Alles Mogliche, Berlin
November 2015 VUE, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
May — August 2015
185th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
The Rundgang, UDK, Berlin
Zig-Zak, Galerie Jordan/Seydoux, Berlin
Landscape - Metropolis, G11 Galerie, Schoneweide, Berlin
Mainie Jellet Travel Bursary to attend the Bassi Brugnatelli International Conducting and Singing Symposium in Robbiate, Italy
April 2015 ‘Romantic Land and Art Life’, Steambox Gallery, Dublin
March 2015 Erasmus travel Grant to UdK Berlin under Professor Gina Burdass
September — October 2014
Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick, Ireland (RDS Student Art Awards Exhibition)
August 2014 National Sculpture Factory, Cork & Student Art Awards Exhibition, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin
June 2014 ‘Perspectives in Painting,’ Jaja Studios, Stoneybatter, Dublin
September — October 2013 The Luan Gallery, Athlone, Ireland (RDS Student Art Awards Exhibition)
August 2013 Student Art Awards Exhibition 2013, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin
February 2013 ‘Notebooks,’ NCAD Gallery, Dublin
September 2011 The Tinahely Arts Festival, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Reviews and Publications
Elva Mulchrone’s Late Step Into Visceral Creation Pays Off | Niall MacMonagle, Sunday Independent, August 2023
Eudaimonia dreaming | Video feature, Dublin City University, 29 March 2023
Best art exhibitions of the week | Gemma Tipton, Irish Times, 29 February 2020
Interview with VoyageMiami (online publication) The Thought Provokers series, 3 May 2018
Irrational Exuberance
Essay by Niru Ratnam, Writer and Commercial Director at ArtReview 2018
★★★★ Irrational Exuberance by Elva Mulchrone
An artistic experience crafted for the modern mind | Aidan Dunne, Irish Times 13 March 2018
Irrational Exuberance | Elva Mulchrone, published Eight Gallery 2018
Art critic Aidan Dunne reviews the NCAD, DIT and IADT graduate exhibitions on RTE Radio 1's Arena
21.06.2016 (click here to listen)
NCAD art show throws up Dolphin flats and 3D prosthetics | Irish Times 18 June 2016
Visual Art: Anxious, formidable work at graduate shows | Irish Times 21 June 2016
2016, An Image of Ireland, Contemporary Artists from Ireland | Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Antiga Edition, Italy