Some Images from my Degree Show, More to come soon...

Newspaper Kitchen Installation for The Irish Examiner Food Festival 2012

As part of the Irish Examiner Food festival the Irish Examiner comissioned me to create a room out of newspapers. I brought two fellow artists on boards, Colin O' Connor http://colinoconnorart.com/  who works with paper in grids and repetitive patterns to create sculptural pieces and Rory Mullen who makes rooms out of cardboards. We decided to make a kitchen in order to stay in keeping with the event. The brief was to create a space that was welcoming and felt homely, where festival goers can interact with the work and sit in and enjoy. All pieces are made from or clad in Irish Examiner newspapers.

Installation shots from my degree show

Degree Show Prints

EXXIT, CIT Crawford College of art and Design, BA (Hons) Fine Art and Ceramics Degree Show)

Here's our logo for the show. I will put up some images over the weekend of my work that's in the show which is currently being assessed.

Artist CV

Maeve Lynch

maevelynchartist@gmail.com 

http://maevelynchartist.blogspot.com/ 

Education  

2008- 2012 BA (Hons) Fine art, First class honours, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork
 2002-2004  Colaiste Stiofan Naofa, Cork,  Theatre Production & design 

2000 London College of Music, grade 8, Speech and Drama teaching 

2000 Royal College of Music, grade 7, Piano 

Work Experience

 March 2012-present
Gallery facilitator, Wandesford Quay Gallery Cork

September 2012-present
Graduate resident in print, Crawford College of art and design
September-present
Co-coordinator, Art in the Making, Crawford College of art and design.
September 2012
Curator- People and Places. An exhibition of paintings by Cork artist Ricky Lynch

July-August 2012
Project Manager- Irish Examiner Art installation commission project for Cork Food Festival
July 2012-present
Contributor, Cork Arts Review, and online arts review website

November 2011-July 2012

Co- Chairperson 

 Exxit Crawford Degree Show 2012, Sharmann Crawford Street, Cork 

• Co ordinating a group of 53 students 

• Liaising with heads of 8 departments weekly to ensure work is being carried out to the 

deadlines set out, within budget and to the standards expected by the Chairpersons 

• Managing and negotiating budgets 

• Being innovative and creative to motivate a team of students to use new ways of marketing, 

fundraising and design in order to develop a unique identity and event. 

• Problem solving and conflict resolution 

July 2011 

Coordinator & head of PR 

hOurs art exhibtion, The Elysian, Eglantine St. Cork 

December 2010 - June 2012  

 Head of PR, Ground Floor, third year Crawford College of art and design exhibition, The Elysian, 

Eglantine St. Cork 

• Coordinating a design team for the third year exhibition catalogue 

• Extensive online marketing which achieved an opening night audience of approximately 

800 people 

• Budgeting and negotiating for the advertising, design and event night costs. Resulting in an 

overall profit. 

March 2011  

Invigilation and administration, Terminal Convention, Cork Airport, International art exhibition and 

art fair. 

2007 - 2009
Assistant Drama Teacher 
Wolfe Stage school, Cork

2004 

Costume designer, Dramask Theatre Company,  The Caucasion Chalk Circle, Granary Theatre, 

Cork 

• Costume design and construction for cast of 25.  

• Set construction assistant. 

2004 

Costume design and construction, Kinsale community school, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang  

Future Exhibitions 

March 2013- Irish Wave Shanghai & Beijing

Group Exhibitions 
September 2012- Impressions, Galway Arts centre

July 2012: Newspaper Installation, Examiner offices Gallery, Lapps Quay Cork & Fitzgerald Par, Cork
July 2012: Emerging artists 2012, Courthouse arts centre, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow

June 2012: Exxit, Crawford College of art and design Degree Show in Fine art and Ceramics, Sharman Crawford street, Cork 

March 2012: Instruments of pleasure, National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing 

March 2012: Convergence 3, With Space Gallery, 798 Beijing 

September 2011: Rewind, M. Žmuidzinavičius Museum, Textiles Biennale, Kaunas, Lithuania 

September 2011: Urban Fabric 2, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork 

August 2011: RDS Student art awards, traveling exhibition, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin 

July 2011: RDS student art awards, RDS, Dublin 

July 2011: hOurs, Elysian, Cork  

June 2011:Ground Floor, Elysian, Cork  

March 2011: New Generations, Yi Gallery, Beijing 

September 2010: Salon @ the Bodega, The Bodega, Cork  

Collections 

Dola Twomey, Cork 

Private Collection, Essex
The state art collection, managed by the Office of public works, Ireland

Awards 
2012 Graduate Residency Award in Print, Crawford college of art and design

2011: RDS student art awards, selected for exhibition in RDS and selected for the 

travelling exhibition to Farmleigh Gallery

Publications 

• CCAD Textiles participating in Lithuanian Exhibition, The Learning City, Magazine of Cork 

Institute of Technology, December 2011, Volume 13, Issue 1 

• Review of hOurs @ Ground Floor Gallery, by Leslie Allen, The Avant online magazine, August 

2011, http://theavant.wordpress.com/  

• Critical Bastards Magazine, Issue 6 

Projection installations

Lately I have been working on a series of spacial projections combined with sculpture to extend and distort the space the work is in. One of my greatest influences is the German Expressionist film 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligary' for it's use of lighting and distorted set design which comments on how the distortions of the mind can be manifested throughout the built interior.

Current Artist Statement

My work explores the psychological impact of the interior. The notion of interior is a reference to the psychological versus the physical; the space of the mind and its relationship to the space of the interior. Other than providing shelter the interior can create a physical construct that mirrors our need to psychologically and physically define immediate space in relation to our body. Distorting these spaces can emphasize the distortions of the mind. I am drawn to liminal and threshold spaces such as doorways

Irish Wave Exhibition China

In march of this year I was privileged to participate again as part of Irish Wave 2012.  I exhibited work in both Shanghai and Beijing including:  Instruments of pleasure, National Centre for Performing Arts,
& Convergence 3, With Space Gallery, 798 Beijing. See the Irish wave website for more images of the work in place. http://bigsmallartists.com/?page_id=33 Below are some images of the work that I submitted, they combine etching, lithography, handmade paper and photography.

Installation Tests From November 2011

NEW PRINTS

I have been steadily working away on my printing trying new techniques and processes. These include lithography, photo riston, screen print, etchings and some combinations and collages using print. Here are some examples....

Sugar-lift etching and plastic, thread and paper collage

Photo Riston installation

Etchings of chairs

Lithography, overlaid with etching and handmade paper

Lithography, overlaid with etching and handmade paper

Etching overlaid with true grain paper and ink and handmade paper

Etching overlaid with true grain paper and ink and handmade paper

Photo Riston overlaid with true grain paper and ink

Etching

Etching

Etching

Etching

Projections November 2011

It's been a while  but here are some images from a series of projections I have been working on....