Arts Life - Maeve Lynch

What I do: Visual artist.

Favourite café: Natural Foods Bakery, Blackrock.

Current listening: Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

The last book I read: The Sisters Brothers, by Patrick De Witt.

My last trip to the theatre: Chamber Maids, in the Maldron, for Cork Midsummer Festival, part art/part theatre.

The last exhibition I attended: The Reading Room, Crawford Art Gallery Library.

The last gig I attended: The Lynch Mob, Counihan’s, Cork.

My favourite film: I don’t like favourites, but for today I’ll say The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.

My favourite writer/artist/musician: Louise Bourgeois.

My favourite work of art: Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled with the Brilliance of Life, 2011.

My favourite venue: Charlie’s Bar.

The writer/artist/musician I would most like to meet: Louise Bourgeois. I’ll be waiting a while — she died in 2010.

Upcoming/current show: I am currently working on a newspaper kitchen installation for the Irish Examiner Food Festival. The piece includes a full-size fireplace and aga cooker, along with kitchen table and accessories. The piece was a collaboration between myself and fellow artists, Colin O’ Connor and Rory Mullen. We decided on the country kitchen as we wanted the piece to reference a room related to food, but also to create a sense of home within the work and within the festival. All the objects have been made either entirely, or partially, from Irish Examiners. We encourage people to explore the work, have a sit down and enjoy the comforts of a newspaper country kitchen.

Bio: Maeve Lynch is a native of Cork. Maeve’s artistic career began in theatre production, which she studied in Colaiste Stiofan Naofa, Cork, and specialised in costume and set design. She has recently completed her BA hons in fine art at the Crawford College of Art and Design. Maeve has exhibited nationally and internationally, exhibiting in China, including Instruments of Pleasure in the National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing, and in Lithuania, Kaunus textiles bienalle. Maeve is currently showing in the Emerging Artist exhibition in the Courthouse Arts Centre, Wicklow, and working with the Irish Examiner Food festival in Fitzgerald’s Park.

Maeve’s work is primarily in print, textiles, installation and video. Her background in theatre influences her work and how she imagines the holistic environmental experience that an artwork should contain.