Maeve Lynch
maevelynchartist@gmail.com
http://maevelynchartist.blogspot.com/
Education
2008- 2012 BA (Hons) Fine art, First class honours, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork
2002-2004 Colaiste Stiofan Naofa, Cork, Theatre Production & design
2000 London College of Music, grade 8, Speech and Drama teaching
2000 Royal College of Music, grade 7, Piano
Work Experience
March 2012-present
Gallery facilitator, Wandesford Quay Gallery Cork
September 2012-present
Graduate resident in print, Crawford College of art and design
September-present
Co-coordinator, Art in the Making, Crawford College of art and design.
September 2012
Curator- People and Places. An exhibition of paintings by Cork artist Ricky Lynch
July-August 2012
Project Manager- Irish Examiner Art installation commission project for Cork Food Festival
July 2012-present
Contributor, Cork Arts Review, and online arts review website
November 2011-July 2012
Co- Chairperson
Exxit Crawford Degree Show 2012, Sharmann Crawford Street, Cork
• Co ordinating a group of 53 students
• Liaising with heads of 8 departments weekly to ensure work is being carried out to the
deadlines set out, within budget and to the standards expected by the Chairpersons
• Managing and negotiating budgets
• Being innovative and creative to motivate a team of students to use new ways of marketing,
fundraising and design in order to develop a unique identity and event.
• Problem solving and conflict resolution
July 2011
Coordinator & head of PR
hOurs art exhibtion, The Elysian, Eglantine St. Cork
December 2010 - June 2012
Head of PR, Ground Floor, third year Crawford College of art and design exhibition, The Elysian,
Eglantine St. Cork
• Coordinating a design team for the third year exhibition catalogue
• Extensive online marketing which achieved an opening night audience of approximately
800 people
• Budgeting and negotiating for the advertising, design and event night costs. Resulting in an
overall profit.
March 2011
Invigilation and administration, Terminal Convention, Cork Airport, International art exhibition and
art fair.
2007 - 2009
Assistant Drama Teacher
Wolfe Stage school, Cork
2004
Costume designer, Dramask Theatre Company, The Caucasion Chalk Circle, Granary Theatre,
Cork
• Costume design and construction for cast of 25.
• Set construction assistant.
2004
Costume design and construction, Kinsale community school, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Future Exhibitions
March 2013- Irish Wave Shanghai & Beijing
Group Exhibitions
September 2012- Impressions, Galway Arts centre
July 2012: Newspaper Installation, Examiner offices Gallery, Lapps Quay Cork & Fitzgerald Par, Cork
July 2012: Emerging artists 2012, Courthouse arts centre, Tinahely, Co. Wicklow
June 2012: Exxit, Crawford College of art and design Degree Show in Fine art and Ceramics, Sharman Crawford street, Cork
March 2012: Instruments of pleasure, National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing
March 2012: Convergence 3, With Space Gallery, 798 Beijing
September 2011: Rewind, M. Žmuidzinavičius Museum, Textiles Biennale, Kaunas, Lithuania
September 2011: Urban Fabric 2, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork
August 2011: RDS Student art awards, traveling exhibition, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin
July 2011: RDS student art awards, RDS, Dublin
July 2011: hOurs, Elysian, Cork
June 2011:Ground Floor, Elysian, Cork
March 2011: New Generations, Yi Gallery, Beijing
September 2010: Salon @ the Bodega, The Bodega, Cork
Collections
Dola Twomey, Cork
Private Collection, Essex
The state art collection, managed by the Office of public works, Ireland
Awards
2012 Graduate Residency Award in Print, Crawford college of art and design
2011: RDS student art awards, selected for exhibition in RDS and selected for the
travelling exhibition to Farmleigh Gallery
Publications
• CCAD Textiles participating in Lithuanian Exhibition, The Learning City, Magazine of Cork
Institute of Technology, December 2011, Volume 13, Issue 1
• Review of hOurs @ Ground Floor Gallery, by Leslie Allen, The Avant online magazine, August
2011, http://theavant.wordpress.com/
• Critical Bastards Magazine, Issue 6
