TESSA LYNCH
  Biography
     
 

EDUCATION
September 2003 – 2007  

Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Bachelor of arts  First Class (Hons) Tapestry
Winter 2004   

Saga University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan, exchange programme studying Japanese painting and print
September 2002 – 2003

 Camberwell College of Art, London, BTEC diploma in art and design, Distinction

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES

July 2010

You Are Here performance, as part of Live Site on Edinburgh’s BBC interactive screen, in association with Collective Gallery

June 2010

Revolving Doors Relaxed performance in association with Trolley Gallery London as part of Manifesten

April 2010

Alexandrite performance, at Edinburgh International Climbing Arena, in association with Collective Gallery

Alexandrite exhibition,Collective Gallery, Cockburn Street, Edinburgh

November 2007               

New Work Scotland Pogramme, Collective Gallery, Cockburn Street, Edinburgh
August 2007

Rome In A Day, Annuale,The  Embassy Gallery, East Crosscauseway, Edinburgh
December 2004

On Air Off Air, Saga University of Arts, Kyoto

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND WORKSHOPS

September 2010

Keep Floors and Passages Clear Moot Gallery Nottingham

To Have and To Hold publication contribution

August 2010

Joan Mitchell Interactive workshop Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

December 2009

Karla Black Interactive workshop Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

October 2009

John McCracken Interactive workshop Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

September 2009

Medienmarionetten with Owen Curtis Williams at Subvision Festival Hamburg with Publish and Be Damned

August 2009

Edinburgh art festival 2009 The Giving Tour – Artist’s perforamtive tour collaboration with Shona Handley  commissioned by EAF

March 2009

Boneless Box The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

Place Project The Bowery, Edinburgh

Re-make temporary space curated by Jenny Richards & Charlotte Jones Edinburgh

February 2009

Kiss Of A Lifetime  Rogue Studios Manchester

November 2008

Publish and be Damned  Sunday Supplement  The Camden Arts Centre
October  2008

Oscillation music festival – Weekending at Black Box    

August  2008

Edinburgh art festival 2008 The Giving Tour – Artist’s perforamtive tour collaboration with Shona Handley  commissioned by EAF
February 2008               

Polish Connections, Collective Gallery, Cockburn Street, Edinburgh 
October 2007                   

The Embassy Collection, Zoo Art Fair, London
August 2007                    

Sets, Standby, Edinburgh Quay
July 2007                          

Open Space, One day interactions, Kunsthochschule, Kassel, Germany
June 2007                         

Hung, Drawn and Quartered, Standby, Edinburgh
May 2007                         

Name In Lights, Ross Bandstand, Princes St Gardens, Edinburgh
April 2007                       

Et Tu Tribute, video & performance night, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art
March 2007                      

Textual Healing an Exhibition of Artists’ Books and Text Related Art The Embassy Gallery
March 2007                     

RSA Student Exhibition 2007, Royal Scottish Academy, Princes St, Edinburgh
November 2006              

Night of a Thousand Trips, Video & Performance night, The Embassy Gallery,
April 2005                      

Et Tu Tribute, video & performance night, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art
June 2005                       

 Tapestry, Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh

 

AWARDS

March 2010

Arts Trust Scotland Award

March 2010             

Edinburgh City Council Visual Arts & Crafts Award

November 2007             

Edinburgh City Council Visual Arts & Crafts Award
June 2007                        

Marion Cameron Mackenzie Travel Scholarship 2007 – awarded by ECA

 

CURATING WORK
October 2007                 

Spook Up I Can’t Hear you, video & performance night, The Embassy Gallery , at Edinburgh College of Art
May 2007                       

Name In Lights, A performance art event, a collaboration with Shona Handley, The Ross Bandstand Princes St Gardens, Edinburgh

 

OTHER WORK 
October 2007                

Director of The Embassy , East Crosscauseway, Edinburgh
December 2006              

Performed in Black White & Shades of Grey a performance by Craig Coulthard, Magdalene Chapel, Edinburgh
August 2006                  

Performed in Craig Coulthard’s "I Love You Means I Hate You, I Love You Means I Love You"
October 2005                 

Performed in Raiding the Icebox a performance by Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, Talbot  Rice Gallery, Edinburgh