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Tessa Lynch works predominantly with sculpture, print and performance. Her work is designed to offer feminist readings of the city, highlighting issues of social reproduction that are at odds with contemporary art. She describes her practice as work and life held in one place, intermingling and blurred. Lynch is interested in the politics that shape the world and how they’re reflected in what we see and experience on a day-to-day basis. She is fascinated by the emotional impact of the environment, specifically the built environment, urban settings, how they’re shaped and controlled and, in turn, how they shape us.
UPCOMING
Summer 2022 Playscape commission for National Galleries Scotland, Modern One, Edinburgh
July 2022 Solo exhibition at Edinburgh Printmaker’s, Edinburgh
2022 Made on the Table, publication and performance, GoMA, Glasgow
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 ‘Stoop, Stoop, Stooping is Stoopid!’ A collaborative exhibition with Rachel Adams at Studio Pavilion, House For an Art Lover, Glasgow
2019 Gardener, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow
2018 All About You, performance with Rhubaba choir, Collective, Edinburgh
2018 Affinity and Allusion, Collective, Edinburgh
2018 Soft Cells – Uncanny Loop curated by Transit Arts as part of the Glasgow Short Film Festival
2017 L-Shaped Room, Spike Island, Bristol
2017 NOW, Modern One, National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh (solo room presentation)
2016 Wave Machine, David Dale, Glasgow
2016 Green Belt, Whitstable Biennale, Kent
2016 Painter's Table, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow for Glasgow International Director's Programme
2014 Cafe Concrete, Glasgow Sculpture Studios Graduate fellowship exhibition
2014 Raising, Jupiter Artland for GENERATION, Edinburgh
2012 Better Times, Whitstable Biennale, Kent
2010 You Are Here, Produced for BBC Live site screen with Collective, Edinburgh
2010 Alexandrite, Edinburgh International Climbing Arena and Collective, Edinburgh
2007 News You Can Use, New Work Scotland Programme, Collective, Edinburgh
PERMANENT COMMISSIONS
2018 Turns, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, permanent public sculpture
2018 Building per Hour, permanent sculptural bar installed at SWG3, Glasgow
2014 Raising, Jupiter Artland for GENERATION, Edinburgh, permanent public sculpture
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 You’re Never Done, Springburn Museum, Glasgow (as part of Glasgow International 2021
2018 It Takes a Village, Humber Street Gallery, Hull
2018 Uptown High Rise No.2, Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen
2018 Uncanny Loop, Civic House, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow
2018 The Drivers Seat, Cubitt, London - performance of Tethered with Rhona Warwick Paterson curated by Panel, Glasgow
2017 Frieze, London with Frutta, Rome
2017 Women and the Man Made Environment, Panel discussion, Marabouparken, Stockholm
2017 Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat, Travelling Gallery, various locations in Scotland
2017 Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight)?, J Hammond Projects, London
2016 Trigger Words, Glasgow Print Studios, Glasgow
2016 Condo, London with Frutta, Rome
2015 That's Genetic, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow
2015 Over, Over, Over, Simone de Sousa, Detroit
2014 Mood is Made/ Temperature is Taken, curated by Quinn Latimer for GENERATION, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow
2013 Fall Scenes,134 Renfrew Street, Glasgow
2013 Glasgow School of Art MFA Degree Show, Glue Factory, Glasgow
2012 Performing Sculpture, Modern One, Edinburgh
2012 Glasgow School of Art MFA Interim Show, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow
2011 SAM DEROUNIAN ALEX IMPEY FLORRIE JAMES CONOR KELLY GRAHAM KELLY KARI ROBERTSON TESSA LYNCH CHARLOTTE PRODGER MICHAEL SMITH, Transmission, Glasgow
2011 Joy Axe, Embassy, Edinburgh
2011 Act II, Rhubaba, Edinburgh
2010 Keep Floors and Passages Clear, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham and White Columns, New York
2009 The Art of Giving Part 2–Artist’s performative tour collaboration with Shona Handley , commissioned by EAF
2009 Subvison Festival, Performance event with Publish and be Damned, Hamburg
2008 Sunday Supplement, Performance event with Publish and be Damned, Camden Arts Centre, London
2008 The Art of Giving, Artist’s performative tour collaboration with Shona Handley commissioned by EAF
2007 The Embassy Collection, Zoo Art Fair, London
2007 Polish Connections, Collective, Edinburgh
2007 Open Space, One day performative interactions, Kunsthochschule, Kassel, Germany
2007 Name In Lights, Curated performance event at The Ross Bandstand, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
2006 Night of a Thousand Trips, Video and Performance night, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2005 Et Tu Tribute, Video and Performance night, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
AWARDS
2020 Florent Stone Award - Edinburgh University
2017 Elephant Trust recipient
2017 Creative Scotland, Open Funding recipient
2014 Creative Scotland Artist's bursary
2013 Glasgow Sculpture Studios Gordon Foundation Graduate Fellowship
2010 Arts Trust Scotland Award
2010 Edinburgh City Council Visual Arts & Crafts Award
2007 Edinburgh City Council Visual Arts & Crafts Award
2007 Selected for New Work Scotland Programme, Collective
COLLECTIONS
Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale
Edinburgh University Collection
Arts Council Collection
PUBLICATIONS
2019 MAP, Soap Suds, article by Gwen Dupre
2016 Frieze, Portfolio: Tessa Lynch
2015 Scottish Arts News, article by Laura Campbell
2014 Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland: Reader and Guide
2011 Collective 1984-2009