Sean Lynch will represent Ireland at the 56th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2015. He will work with commissioner Mike Fitzpatrick, who also curated the Irish Pavilion in 2007, and curator Woodrow Kernohan, director of Eva International.
The announcment follows an open competition process run by the Culture Ireland Division of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, in partnership with the Arts Council.
Lynch, who lectures at Limmerick School of Art and Design and has a growing international reputation, uses narrative to explore complex cultural issues within his work. His exhibition, A blow-by-blow account of stone carving in Oxford, is currently showing at Modern Art Oxford.
Of the selection, Fitzpatrick said: “Sean Lynch will represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2015 with a unique presentation that will gather disparate strands of our history and locate them in a series of interlocking vignettes.”
Curator Woodrow Kernohan said: “This is a very exciting project. I’m delighted to have been selected to work with Sean Lynch and Mike Fitzpatrick to represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2015. Sean’s work celebrates unwritten aspects of our social and cultural heritage.”
The 56th Venice Biennale will open to the public from 9 May to 22 November 2015. The Ireland at Venice exhibition will then tour Ireland in 2016.
Sean Lynch’s exhibition at Modern Art Oxford continues until 8 June. www.modernartoxford.org.uk
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