Sean Lynch holds a MA in the History of Art and Design from the University of Limerick. He now lives in Belfast. He has completed public art projects in Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Limerick over the last three years. In 2004 he was awarded a fellowship at the Triangle Artists Association in New York. He recently curated You Should Really Go There, a site-specific project for Limerick City Gallery of Art. Other selected exhibitions include LKV, Trondheim, Norway (2004), The Suicide of Objects, Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2004), Crawford Open, Cork (2002-4), Ev+a, Limerick (2002-3), Tracce di un Seminario, Viafarini, Milan (2002), City Fabric, Firestation Artist Studios, Dublin (2001).

Lynch’s practice revolves around history and the built environment, In the Alteration Series (2001-3), Lynch installed temporary public artworks, in the form of metal appendages in forgotten urban environments in Limerick, Dublin and Cork. These pieces brought a focused attention back to specific places. More recent works delve into historical scenarios, often taken from Irish history. The Ansbacher Bank Building recalls the hoarding of offshore accounts by Irish politicians, exposed in the mid 1990s. Peter Murray, curator at Cork’s Crawford Art Gallery, has noted: ‘Sean Lynch’s model of the Ansbacher Bank Building in the Cayman Islands, shows it to be an absurd example of Neo-Classical architecture. The incoherence of the historicism of the bank building is paralleled with the incoherence of its tax-evading clients.’ On a 2004 residency in Trondheim, Norway, Lynch reconstructed a version of an Evangelical Symbol from the Book of Kells. Such artworks show Lynch’s curiosity about how one may draw inspiration from or make reference to the past, while realising a place where work, authentic and primary, can still be made.