Roseanne Lynch

Artist Bio

Roseanne Lynch is an Irish artist with an international exhibiting darkroom based photography practice.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Façonner la Lumière, Adrian Bondy Galerie, Mind’s Eye, Paris (2024) No Want of Evidence, Photo Museum Ireland, curated by Pádraig Spillane, (2023) Semblance, Lavit Gallery, Cork, (2022); GRAMMAR, Techne Sphere, Leipzig, (2021); Forgetting’s Trace, Irish Embassy, Berlin, (2020); La trace de l’oubli, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, (2019). 

In 2023 she produced a photo book GRAMMAR of work made in response to the teachings of the Vorkus at the Bauhaus school following a residency at The Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, including a text by their curator Torsten Blume. Her work is held in various collections including: The National Collection of Ireland; The Arts Council of Ireland Collection; Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau; UCC Art Collection, The Glucksman Gallery, Cork; The Office of Public Works State Art Collection; as well as significant national and international private collections. 

Residencies include: Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Alberta, Canada; Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany; Camargo Foundation International Fellowship Programme, Cassis, France; Cork Centre for Architectural Education, and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. Lynch is at part time lecturer at MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland and has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, MTU and Cork City Arts Office. 

Statement

My Master of Arts (by research) from MTU/ Crawford College of Art and Design, 2010 placed my practice within phenomenological discourse concerning the corporal presence of looking, and the real and implied space within a photographic representation in which the viewer’s awareness of their own presence becomes an inherent element of the work.

Recurring themes in my work has been a sustained exploration of Modernist architecture, surface, light, geometrical forms and the medium of photography itself as a tool of representation and enquiry.

A significant shift in my work happened during a residency at The Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau in 2018 followed by an 18 month stay in Leipzig, as a guest of the Academy of Art, and supported by the Irish Arts Council. My research focused on the teachings of the Johannes Itten’s Vorkurs or preliminary course undertaken by students at the Bauhaus school of design, architecture, and applied arts. A main aim of the course that I was interested in was to encourage consideration of materiality by experimenting with basic forms, repetition and rigor to study space and surface.

Itten encouraged his students to learn the GRAMMAR of their materials, which is where I place my darkroom based photography practice.

Instagram: www.instagram.com/roseannelynch/

Membership: Backwater Artists Network