Artist Bio
Cara Murphy is a silversmith based in County Down, who works mainly to commission and exhibits her silverware internationally. Her silver tableware is represented in many national and international, public and private collections including the Goldsmiths’ Company Collection, The Silver Trust Collection at Downing Street, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the Ulster Museum, the National Museum of Ireland, the Office of Public Works in Ireland, the Shipley Art Gallery in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Aberdeen Art Gallery, the Arts Council an Chomhairle Ealaoin, the Irish Embassy Collection, the Pearson Silver Collection, and the Royal College of Art.
Cara is a QEST scholar and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. She is a selected member of Contemporary British Silversmiths, an Associate Academician of the Royal Ulster Academy, and a selected maker of the Design & Crafts Council Ireland’s Irish Craft Portfolio.
