Tuesday 17th December 2024
Location: Tea House (with steps), Bateman Quay, Kilkenny
Join us to mark the conclusion of Carrie Lynam’s residency at the Tea House with a special in-conversation event featuring artist, curator and arts educator Claire Halpin.

The discussion will delve into both Clare’s and Carrie’s practices, focusing on research processes, as well as modes of production and creation.

Carrie’s work questions how the erosion of personal privacy in our digital age affects how we view and portray ourselves online. She creates portraits of an era adrift, where identity and information can be ambiguous, manufactured and malleable.

Her curiosity lies in the plasticity of knowledge and appearance. Her handmade art objects have a dual function, to transform and obscure. The often-pliable mask can be manipulated into countless temporary facades, it has no single form thus exposing a process of transformation and illusion.

Claire’s work explores themes and concepts around contested territories and histories through painting. The current series are responding to different sites of conflict and protest – from cultural wars, migrant crisis, to the current wars in Gaza and Ukraine as well as the ongoing forgotten wars away from the media lens. The spectacle and theatrics of conflict and protest documented and recorded through paint.
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Unfortunately the studio Tea House where the in-conversation will take place is not wheelchair accessible. If anyone has any further access needs for this event please don’t hesitate to get in touch at bothar.work@gmail.com.

The Tea Houses project is proudly initiated by the Kilkenny Arts Office and programmed by Rachel Botha.
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