Sean Lynch

b. 1978, Ireland

Over the last few years, my site-orientated projects have investigated ideas of place. For ev+a I considered the site and history of Limerick City Gallery of Art, formerly the Carnegie Free Library and Museum. Objects and documents from LCGA’s past are re-presented in two installations. Each work references specific architectural histories in the gallery’s existence – on the gallery’s southern façade, an unrealised 1904 design for the building by CFA Voysey and, inside the building, the original sign for the Carnegie Free Library.

I have also produced a series of eight postcards documenting real estate signs on the edge of Limerick. Such places are promoted as part of the ‘new’ Limerick, the next destinations for Ireland’s building boom. I consider my activities as ‘shock therapy’, a way of reconsidering the meaning of specific sites or conditions. Within the convergence of site, circumstance and artwork, there are inherent possibilities that continue to drive my practice, to locate new recognitions and understandings of the public realm.

(Text: give(a)way catalogue, 2006)