Ultraviolet Art Talks Season12 EP08 Shane Lynam

On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to visual artist Shane Lynam in 2022.

Shane Lynam (b. 1980) is an Irish photographer based in Dublin. His first book, Fifty High Seasons, was published in 2018. He is represented by Galerie Bertrand Grimont in Paris who presented his work at Paris Photo and exhibited Fifty High Seasons in 2019.

He won the Gallery of Photography Solas award in 2015 and the Curtin O’Donoghue RHA award in 2018. He was selected for a residency at the Irish Cultural Centre Paris in 2019 which included an exhibition at the Centre. He was the recipient of the Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award in 2022.

By spending prolonged periods photographing built environments and overlooked public spaces, and weaving the images together to create intuitive narratives, he looks to provide a fresh perspective on how we regard public spaces.

“Having moved around a lot since my childhood, I found myself back living in Dublin in 2012 and slowly realised that I would be spending an indefinite period of my life here. I have been negotiating my relationship with the city ever since. This has involved obsessively photographing as much of the fabric of the city as I can. By returning over and over to the same sites and almost deconstructing the space, I then look to put these fragments back together to suggest an alternative representation of the city, somewhere between reality and my own experience. The work intends to challenge popular visual representations of the post-crisis period in Dublin by emphasising the subjective experience and how it can be reflected in the texture and physicality of the built environment.”__Shane Lynam

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