Show

Show 3, © Roseanne Lynch 2012

On Monday we took down Show.

The satisfying feeling of relief. It is done. It has happened.

A few days after the opening, as I was taking installation shots, I was struck by how the space did not feel like mine anymore.  The work was a very personal response to the site. I lived and talked inside my head and on the pages of my sketchbook for the duration of the making of the work. But as soon as I handed it over and opened the doors it became yours, not mine. I did not expect to feel so distant from it.

Another unexpected happening was the effect on the surface of Show 1, the first piece inside the door to the left. Approaching it from inside the space, the image became immaterial and the vinyl material and it’s light reflecting quality became the thing, linking it to the metal piece, Show 2, which had no image printed on it.

Yet another delight was while taking down Show 1, as Pam and I peeled the image off the wall, it became something else again, a form moulded by light, not an image.

Show 1, © Roseanne Lynch 2012

Show 2, © Roseanne Lynch 2012

A word about the opening.

It was a blast, the fact that I was voiceless for 3 days after it explains alot.

I am so grateful to Mark St John Ellis of Nag, New Art Gallery, 59 Francis Street, Dublin, for preforming the opening and entertaining us with his informed speech. I like being in the same sentence as John Cage.

Thank you to family, friends, colleagues and students who made it all so enjoyable, and to the brilliant curatorial duo, Stag and Deer, Pádraig Spillane and Pamela Condell. The event that was THERE THERE was their inspiration and they brought an amazing series of exhibitions to Cork.

 Official opening of Show by Roseanne Lynch & 

The Yellow River by Zhang Kechun, © Jedrzej Niezgoda 2012

 Stag & Deer aka Pádraig Spillane & Pamela Condell 

address the audience, © Jedrzej Niezgoda 2012

Mark St. John Ellis' opening speech, © Jedrzej Niezgoda 2012

Visitors contemplate the work © Jedrzej Niezgoda 2012

And now....... Show has occupied my mind since May of this year and now, having had a deep breath, I am so looking forward to getting back to the pages of my sketchbook that are paper clipped together. They have my ‘other ideas for work’ and I had secured them closed so as not to distract me until I could give them time. 

This is the fourth and final post in a series on the process of creating a site responsive exhibition Show at the Copley Street School of Architecture for There, There, a photographic event curated by Stag & Deer in Cork this October. You can see the other posts in the series here and here and here.

Show - Work in Progress #3

This is the third post in a series on the process of creating a site responsive exhibition Show at the Copley Street School of Architecture for There, There, a photographic event curated by Stag & Deer in Cork later in October. You can see the other posts in the series here and here.

Sketchbook Page showing Work in Progress, © Roseanne Lynch 2012

My next step was to find a printer who I could work with to get the size of the prints I needed. I visited Uptime Printing in Bandon and we discussed different types of papers. I want the images to be a part of the building so rather than having them framed and detached from the wall I want them to be stuck directly to the structure. This led me to look at both glossy and matt self adhesive vinyls.

I returned to the space with a 2 test strips and a cheap photocopy of the full image that I made to test the final size in the space. I immediately saw that the images have a presence in the space at that size and that 2 large images  would work better than the 3 smaller images I had originally envisioned. I decided that although the blacks were deeper in the glossy test strip the reflections and shine were too distracting from the photo itself and I much preferred the matt test strip.

I gave the printers the go ahead to print. Now I wait. There is nothing more I can do for the moment. I'm finding this frustrating as I usually make my own prints  and so I'm not used to giving away control. This time there is no way for me to know for sure if this will work until I get the final prints.

Show will open Saturday 20th October at 3pm in the ground floor of the School of Architecture on Copley Street, Cork.

Show - Work in Progress #2

 This is the second post in a series on the process of creating a site responsive exhibition Show at the Copley Street School of Architecture for There, There, a photographic event curated by Stag & Deer in Cork later in October. You can see the first post in the series here.

Sketchbook Page showing Work in Progress, ©Roseanne Lynch 2012

Having taken a series of images and printing them 20”x24” I put them back into the space to see how I felt about them. It was immediately obvious that 20”x24” prints, the largest prints I can easily make in the darkroom, looked like postage stamps when I put them on the 6m wall where they will be shown. I also found the variation in composition between the images was a distraction, and the reflections of the glossy prints was another thing I was not happy about. So, the solution was to re shoot, keeping the rhythm of the pillars the same, and so refining the content to the creeping of the light over the wooden wall and the subtle environmental differences. Scale and effect of the prints in the space is my other concern. More larger scale test prints using various papers to follow……..

Show will open Saturday 20th October at 3pm in the ground floor of the School of Architecture on Copley Street, Cork.

Show - Sketchbook

Thank you so much to everyone who supported There, There on Fund:it. The great news is that it is now fully funded. If you haven't heard, There, There is a photographic event in Cork City curated by Stag & Deer launching on October 18th 2012. As part of the event I will be having a site responsive exhibition called Show at the architect's school.

Mine is a reflective practice. The work I am making is in response to the exhibition site, with the intention of communicating something of the experience of being in the space. My sketchbooks are an important part of my practice. They are like a mirror reflecting work as I explore different ideas. I will post some pages from my sketchbook here on the blog as the work progresses to share some of the things I have been trying out in the space. You can see the final work when Show opens on Saturday 20th October.

There, There will run from 18th of October 2012 at various venues across Cork City. Please visit the website for more details.

Show will open Saturday 20th October at 3pm in the ground floor of the architect's school on Copley St.

There, There

Today I'm delighted to announce that I will be creating a site responsive exhibition in Cork in October as part of There, There an international photographic event in Cork City curated by Stag and Deer.

There, There will bring together over 30 international, national and local lens based artists in 6 exhibitions across the city. The basic thematic framework of the event is otherness and possible reconnections and reinterpretations of the world we live in. Some of the other artists taking part include Vivianne Sassen (Netherlands), Miriam O'Connor & Zang Kechun (China) among many others.

There, There is a unique and exciting opportunity for photography in Cork City, however Stag & Deer need your help to make it happen. Cork City Council has provided some financial support but additional funding is needed. Please take a look at their Fund:it campaign video to learn more, give what you can and spread the word to help bring this fantastic event to Cork.

There, There - A Photographic Event Fund:it Campaign Video

There, There will run from 18th of October 2012 at various venues across Cork City. Please visit the website for more details.

Roseanne Lynch site responsive exhibition will open Saturday 20th October at 3pm at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education.