Biography

Maeve Lynch (b1985 Cork) first studied Theatre Production before graduating from CIT Crawford College of Art and Design in 2012 with first class honours in Fine Art. She holds a Higher Diploma in Public Relations (2014) and recently completed her Masters in Art and Research Collaboration at IADT. Her work spans many mediums from printmaking, sculpture and video. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally including China and Lithuania. Maeve’s work can be found in both public (OPW) and private collections including the Eli Lilly Print Purchase Prize collection. She was awarded a Print Residency Award at CIT Crawford College in 2012 and she has undertaken residencies in Cill Rialig and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin.

​Maeve has worked with many arts organisations. She has worked in the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, where she coordinated the visiting lecture series and continues to collaborate with the college on one off projects. She project managed a Creative Europe conference as part of Trans National Creative Exchange international collaborative project in 2016. Maeve has worked with Cork Printmakers & Cork City Culture Night for Cork City Council Arts Office and as Gallery Manager for the former Wandesford Quay Gallery Cork City. Maeve is currently the Gallery and Outreach Manager at Cork Printmakers.

She has facilitated a number of educational projects and events including most recently Moving Still project with The Glucksman Gallery; Art in The Making CCAD, LSAD & Lismore Castle Arts; Bookbinding workshop for world book fest, Cork City Library; Rosc: Fiction of the Contemporary at Irish Museum of Modern Art and she has been a guest lecturer in PR and Sales on the Masters in Art and Process at CIT Crawford College of Art and Design.

​Artist Statement
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Maeve Lynch’s work is driven by her interest in perception, materiality and structures. She works in a variety of media including print, sculpture, installation and audio visual elements. Her work is concerned with architecture and landscape as site, manipulating the space within existing structures through installation, video and sound. Maeve explores the live, illusionary and transformative quality of materials and how these can blur the line between two and three dimensionality.


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Solo & Two Person Exhibitions

January 2017: Oh Everywhere There’s Gladness, Tactic Gallery at Cork Photo Gallery, Lord Mayors Pavillion, Fitzgerald’s Park, Cork

April 2014: Site Assembly, Alliance Francaise de Cork

Group Exhibitions

July 2019, In The Offing, Group exhibition and performance event at Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork

August 2019, Platform Gallery, Belfast, Group exhibition with Rosie O’Reilly, Sophie Behal and Cliodhna O’Riordan

2018 touring: State of Print, collaborative printmaking project, UK, ESP, IRL
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April 2018: Guest Appearance, Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin

April 2018: Lightproof, Curated by Brian Mac Domhnaill, Cork Printmakers Gallery

June 2017: Selected by Darn Thorn for dpi at Cork Printmaker's Gallery as part of Cork Midsummer Festival

​April 2017: Soft Ground, a three person collaborative exhibition at CIT Wandesford Quay Gallery

March 2017: Rosc: Fiction of the Contemporary, Irish Museum of Modern Art Project Space

​December 2016: Dazzle, Cork Printmakers Members Exhibition

April 2016: Video selected for inclusion in Gillian Wearing's new work A Room With Your Views

Sept 2015 - May 2016: Tweetbox Touring exhibition, IMPACT 9 Hangzhou China; Lismore St. Carthages Gallery; Belltable Gallery Limerick; Cork City Hall Atrium; Dundee Printmakers, Scotland.

January 2016: Rosebud, The Library Project, Temple Bar, Dublin (Curated by Cora Cummins & Alison Pilkington)
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October 2015: Silver Part 2, Backwater Artist Studios 25 Year Anniversary Show, Garter Lane, Waterford

July 2015: Impressions Biennial, CCAM, Galway

June 2014: The Twoness of Things a two person collaborative installation by Maeve Lynch & Sophie Behal as part of KFEST Killorglin

May - August 2014: Royal Hibernian Academy 184th Annual Exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin

March 2014: Shadows, China Central Mall, Beijing

March 2014: Material World, Loftoo Art Space, Shangahi

January 2014: Legacy, Cork City Hall Atrium

August 2013: RHA 183rd Open submission Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

August 2013: Circulation, Monster Truck and Flood galleries, Dublin

March 2013: Legacy, Creative Mall, Beijing, China

March 2013: Baby Baby, The Irish Centre, Shanghai

September 2012: Impressions 2012, Galways arts centre.

July 2012: Newspaper kitchen, Installation commission for The Irish Examiner, Fitzgeralds Park & Irish Examiner gallery, lapps quay.

July 2012: Emerging Artist’s 2012, The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow

June 2012: Exxit, Crawford College of art and design, BA (Hons) Fine art degree show

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

Curation

2016: Piigs, An Alternative Geography to Curating, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

2016: Guns & Chiffon, Studio 8 Kerry Contemporary Group show, An Deisart Arts Centre, Dingle Co. Kerry

2015: The Mind is the Screen, P Sheehans Sweet Shop, Killorgin Co. Kerry

2014: The Infinite Line - A Search for the Unknown, Tactic Gallery, Sullivans Quay, Cork

May 2013: Art in the Making Pop up exhibition, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork

September 2012: People and Places an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Ricky Lynch

Publications
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ROSC: A Fiction of the Contemporary, ARC Public Press, 2017

The Infinite Line [A Search for the Unknown], Parietal Press, 2014


Collections

Office of public works state art collection

​Eli Lilly

Numerous Private Collection, in Ireland and the UK


Awards & Residencies

  • Cork City Council Individual Artist Bursary Award 2019
  • Eli Lilly Print Purchase Prize, 2016
  • Curatorial Residency, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin 2016
  • Awarded a residency in March 2015 in Cill Rialig Artist Retreat
  • June 2012, Graduate Residency Award in print, Crawford College or Art and Design
  • 2011 RDS student art awards, selected for exhibition in RDS and selected for the travelling exhibition to Farmleigh Gallery
  • Full member of Cork Printmakers


Press
  • 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/
  • http://criticalbastards.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/issue-6/