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The LAB Gallery, Foley Street, Dublin 1, D01WA07
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In The Grid is Elva Mulchrone’s affective response to her Fulbright award and project in 2024/5 and research at the Graduate Center CUNY. It is curated by Margarita Cappock.
Pieces represent her response to feeling the NYC pulse from an oblique angle and personally experiencing its striking inequalities, controls, vibrations and social climate.
Abstract work explores the city’s complex relationship with recurrent patterns and alludes to structures and systems, together with indomitable human spirit. Paintings explore medium and colour and feature disconnected and obstructed mapping. Forms and colours are perhaps trying to break free beyond their prescribed boundary, at once helpless yet defiant, driven to abstraction.
Elva Mulchrone, Journey, 2026, Oil and silkscreen on canvas, 150 x 150cm
In The Grid (2025)
Installation,
Acrylic (and in 6 constituent pieces silkscreen) on Saunders Waterford 638gsm, 40 x 30 cm (x 9)
Acrylic and tape on Arches paper 356gsm, 38 x 28 cm (x 9)
47 x 37 cm framed (x 18)
Elva Mulchrone, Vestige, 2026, Oil and silkscreen on canvas, 87 x 93 cm 90 x 98 cm, framed
Elva Mulchrone, Offline 2026, Oil and silkscreen on canvas, 42 x 38 cm, 45 x 41 cm framed
Elva Mulchrone, Those Who Gave Up And Became The Police, 2026, Oil, oilstick and silkscreen on canvas, 176 x 115 cm
Elva Mulchrone, Ain’t no mountain high enough, 2026 Acrylic, oil and oilstick on Saunders Waterford 638gsm, 30 x 40 cm, 39 x 49 cm framed
Elva Mulchrone, White smoke, 2026 Acrylic, oil and oilstick on Saunders Waterford 638gsm, 30 x 40 cm, 39 x 49 cm framed
“Meet the Artist: Elva Mulchrone on swapping corporate life for creativity”
Elva Mulchrone, Connectivity I, 2026, Oil on linen 150 x 150cm
Elva Mulchrone, Connectivity II, 2026, Oil on linen 150 x 150cm
Elva Mulchrone, Connectivity III, 2026, Oil on linen 150 x 150cm
Elva Mulchrone, One step forward, 2023, Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 150 x 150cm
Elva Mulchrone, Activism, 2023, Oil and silkscreen on linen, 150x150cm
Elva Mulchrone, Sin é, 2023, Inkjet on Hahnemueler, 112 x 160 cm, 120 x 167 cm framed
Elva Mulchrone, 50 States of chaos, 2025, Acrylic and silkscreen on Fabriano, 78 x 100 cm, 90 x 112 cm framed
Elva Mulchrone, Deflector I, 2026 Oil on canvas 71 x 99 cm
Elva Mulchrone, Deflector II, 2026 Oil on canvas 71 x 99 cm
Elva Mulchrone, Pink prescription I, 2023, Acrylic and silkscreen on linen, 45 x 45 cm, 50 x 50 cm framed copy
Elva Mulchrone, Pink prescription II, 2023, Acrylic and silkscreen on linen, 45 x 45 cm, 50 x 50 cm framed copy
Elva Mulchrone, It is what it is, 2023 77 x 150 x 40 cm wood and nails
Elva Mulchrone, Praxis, installation, 22 x 18 cm, 42 x 34cm (framed) (x 9), Acrylic and silkscreen on paper, 2023
Elva Mulchrone, Immobility Show and Tell 2020, Installation, Acrylic and pen on Saunders Waterford 638gm, 32 x 41 cm 39 x 49 cm framed (x 9)
“Elva Mulchrone’s latest work draws on her time in New York and is reflective of grid systems, symbolising the distribution of power and control …”
