LATEST EXHIBITION

LIAM LYNCH
“A CLAUDE GLASS”
A PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION

OPENS 9 OCTOBER 2008 : 7PM

"It seems that Gray walked about everywhere with that pretty toy, the Claude-Lorraine glass, in his hand, making the beautiful forms of the landscape compose in it’s luscious chiaroscuro." – Gosse, 1882.

Named for Claude Lorraine, a 17th-century landscape painter, the Claude Glass is a painter’s tool, a somewhat convex dark or coloured hand-mirror, used to concentrate the features of the landscape in subdued tones. A Claude Glass represents, for some, a radical departure from Liam’s usual approach and aesthetic. Avoiding the structure of narratives or photo stories, and presented only in colour, the work aims to reflect an autobiographical approach, always lyrical, more often than not with a sense of mystery. It focuses on influences within painting and poetry and building on his avoidance of titles like “journalist” or “artist” in favour of that of “storyteller”.

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