Time: Tuesday 17 December, 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Location: Tea House (with steps), Bateman Quay, Kilkenny
Booking: Book via Eventbrite *Limited to 17 attendees
Join us to mark the conclusion of Carrie Lynam’s residency at the Tea House with a special in-conversation event featuring artist, curator and arts educator Claire Halpin. The discussion will delve into both Clare’s and Carrie’s practices, focusing on research processes, as well as modes of production and creation.
Carrie’s work questions how the erosion of personal privacy in our digital age affects how we view and portray ourselves online. She creates portraits of an era adrift, where identity and information can be ambiguous, manufactured and malleable. Her curiosity lies in the plasticity of knowledge and appearance. Her handmade art objects have a dual function, to transform and obscure. The often-pliable mask can be manipulated into countless temporary facades, it has no single form thus exposing a process of transformation and illusion.
Carrie has used her current residency to explore new directions in contexts and making. Producing a large mixed media drawing Making a Scene (200cm x 100cm) alongside a period of research, documented on @notlondonbased. Making a Scene splices the real and the imagined to conjure images that are both familiar and disconcerting, true and manufactured.
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Kilkenny based visual artist Carrie Lynam graduated with a first class honours degree in Fine Art from TU, Dublin and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Community Art Education from the National College of Art; Design (NCAD). She is currently a student on the Masters of Design History and Material Culture at NCAD.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally, with work in the permanent collection of The National Museum of Scotland, and various private collections. Winner of The Progressive Vision Curtin O’Donoghue Emerging photography prize at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2020. Her practise has been documented through feature articles in various print publications such as Irish Arts Review, Dazed, Love, New York Times Style magazine to name a few and as an invited guest speaker at international art and design conferences with Boston University, National Museum of Scotland and Pictoplasma, Berlin. In addition to her solo artistic practice, she engages with diverse collaborations, such as commissions for John Galliano’s couture house Maison Margiela and most recently with Irish artists Dirty Laundry Collective on a film piece, Venous Returns for the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks.
Claire Halpin is a Dublin born and based socially engaged artist, curator and arts educator.
Claire’s recent solo exhibitions include: Panorama Europa, UCC/ Jean Monnet Research Commission, Glucksman Gallery, Cork (2024); Primo Piatto at Gallery Cabaret Voltaire, Rome (2023); Augmented Auguries (2022), Raw War (2019) and Glomar Response (2016) at Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin; DECK – A Collection of Found Playing Cards at The LAB Gallery, Dublin (2022).
Claire’s work explores themes and concepts around contested territories and histories through painting. The current series are responding to different sites of conflict and protest – from cultural wars, migrant crisis, to the current wars in Gaza and Ukraine as well as the ongoing forgotten wars away from the media lens. The spectacle and theatrics of conflict and protest documented and recorded through paint.
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Unfortunately the studio Tea House where the in-conversation will take place is not wheelchair accessible. If anyone has any further access needs for this event please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Rachel Botha at bothar.work@gmail.com.
The Tea Houses project is proudly initiated by the Kilkenny Arts Office and programmed by Rachel Botha.
