The Project (Continued)

Sean Lynch’s practice is research-based and often involves delving into overlooked, forgotten, and highly layered narratives and bringing them together in clusters of new text, archival material, images and sculptures that work together to tell many stories at once. Lynch has approached the history of public art in the city as a part of a larger ongoing project looking at the public reception of public art for Contour of the Common. The Project (Continued) consists of a freely-distributed publication, taking Jimmie Durham’s Untitled public intervention, commissioned by the Orchard Gallery, as its point of departure. Join Lynch and curator Declan McGonagle in a conversation around the Orchard Gallery’s programming and Jimmie Durham’s work.

Sean Lynch is a visual artist and writer. He studied fine art at the Stadelschule, Frankfurt am Main, and holds a masters degree in History of Art from the University of Limerick. In recent years his artworks has been exhibited at the Camden Arts Centre, London, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main and Limerick City Gallery of Art, amongst others. He is represented by the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in Dublin, and is also author and editor of several publications.

Professor Declan McGonagle is currently the Director of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He was the first Organiser of the Orchard Gallery in Derry in 1978. Besides Orchard Gallery, he also worked as a curator at ICA in London. Declan McGonagle was first Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. He was also the founding Director of Interface, a practice based research centre in the School of Art and Design at the University of Ulster in Belfast.