ARTIST Lynda Cronin
Lynda Cronin works within a multi disciplinary practice which has included installations, public art, drawing and sculpture. More recently, she has been developing a series of drawings based around the idea of Roaming. The drawings act a primary source in the creation of an expanding individual vocabulary. Large gestural strokes, water washed landscape and vigorous linear elements scrape the surface.
Drawing is pursued as a cognitive and reflexive process, where a variety of mediums are used to explore mark making strategies. Her work is informed by post-expressionist influences with references to everyday elements like clouds, plants, cells, found object and anthropomorphic forms, as part of a collection of things.
The visual thinking process is achieved through a physical connection with the surface, an intimate personal engagement which can be changed through digital reappraisal. Cronin builds a dialogue with surface, of interpreting and reflecting, building and scraping away; defining a clarity that is continuously changing.
Walking as a means of exploring and discovery is central to her experience, where the influence of varied geographies informs the work and builds on the full sensorium of physical and cognitive engagement. There is a story brewing and we approach the work as a participant, adding our own understanding of humanity to reveal the narrative.
Lynda Cronin is a Canadian artist who was born in Dublin, Ireland and now lives and works in Ottawa, Canada. She creates multi-media sculptural installations and drawings referencing, landscape, geography, migration and history. Her work is held in many private and public collections including the National Library of Canada, City of Ottawa, Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Canadian Hearing Society and Children’s Hospital Foundation , Ottawa.
“Wrapping the Void”, Lynda Cronin, 2020
Lynda Cronin, “Thinking through drawing and objects” at Trinity Art Gallery.
Lynda Cronin works within a multi disciplinary practice which has included installations, public art, drawing and sculpture.
More recently, she has been developing a series of drawings based around the idea of Roaming. The drawings act a primary source in the creation of an expanding individual vocabulary. Large gestural strokes, water washed landscape and vigorous linear elements scrape the surface.
Drawing is pursued as a cognitive and reflexive process, where a variety of mediums are used to explore mark making strategies. Her work is informed by post-expressionist influences with references to everyday elements like clouds, plants, cells, found object and anthropomorphic forms, as part of a collection of things.
There is a story brewing and we approach the work as a participant, adding our own understanding of humanity to reveal the narrative.
“Winged to Ground”, Lynda Cronin, 2020
ARTWORKS BYLynda Cronin
ARTIST’S Accolades
Education
- Studied at the NCAD and IADT, Dublin
- BFA University of Ottawa 1983
- Theory and History of Art 1986
Residencies & Awards
- 2019 A grant, City of Ottawa
- 2019 Uillinn Art Centre, residency, Cork, Ireland
- 2016-18 Artist Studio residency, City of Ottawa
- 2000 Trillium Foundation Community Foundation of Ottawa Carleton. Canada Council ‘B’ Grant.
- 1998 Community Foundation of Ottawa-Carleton
- 1997 City of Ottawa, Art Link, Studio space
- 1995 Irish Arts Council
- 1995 Canada Council, Travel Grant
- 1995 Government of Ontario, Arts Abroad Grant
- 1999/8/2 Project Grant, Ontario Arts Council
- 1998/91/89/88 Artists in Education, Ontario Arts Council
- 1988 Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, Ontario
- 05/97/6/4/3/1/89/87/4/3/19 Exhibition Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Solo Exhibitions
- 2020 Shenkman Art Centre, Roaming and objects, Ottawa
- 2020 AX Cultural Centre, Drawings, New Brunswick
- 2015 Autumn Gallery, Arti-fact series, Toronto, Ontario
- 2013 Ottawa Little Theatre, ’Questionmark project’
- 2005 EchoSense, Harcourt House Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
- 2004 EchoSense, Temiskamimg Art Gallery, Hailebury, Ontario
- 2003 EchoSense, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
- 2000 CAAP ‘Megamovie Festival’ artengine.ca
- 1999 Art Image Gallery ‘Territories of Desire’, Gatineau, Quebec
- 1997 O.S.A. Gallery, ‘Beyond the Limits of the Skin’, Ottawa
- 1996 Blackwood Gallery, ‘Beyond the Limits of the Skin’, University of Toronto
- 1995 Sirius/Crawford Gallery,’Through our Thoughts Walk’, Cobh, Ireland
- 1993 101 Gallery, ‘Domhan,Uisce, Aer,Tine’, Ottawa
- 1992 R.C.A.V. Gallery, ‘Atlantic Ocean Sway Series’, St. John’s Newfoundland
- 1989 Hamilton Artists’ Inc., Hamilton, Ontario
- 1988/4 L’Imagier Centre d’Exposition, Aylmer, Quebec
- 1983 S.A.W. Gallery, ‘Works on Paper’, Ottawa
Group Exhibitions
- 2017 Oeno Gallery, Sculpture Park, Picton, Ontario
- 2012 Nuit Blanche, Cube Gallery, Ottawa
- 2010 City Gallery, Perceptions, Ottawa
- 2008 Céad in China, 411 Galleries, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, China
- 2007 Cube Gallery, Ottawa
- 2005/6 Blink Gallery cooperative, Header House, Ottawa
- 2003 CyberArts, International Compendium Priz Ars Electronica, Linz
- 1999 Karsh Masson Gallery, Recent Acquisitions, RMOC collection, Ottawa
- 1998 Contemporary Art Museum, ‘Freedom, Pluralism’, Chile
- 1997 Karsh-Masson Gallery, Lynda Cronin & Ineke Standish, 11+3/4, Ottawa
- 1995 Ottawa Art Gallery, ‘Drawings & Dérivés’, Ottawa
- 1995 St. Mary’s University, Art Gallery, Nova Scotia
- 1994 O.S.A. Gallery, ‘All I Desired…”/ ‘Science and Myth’, Ottawa
- 1994 Intercultural Sculpture Symposium, Inuit Art Foundation, Ottawa
- 1994 Art Terre, ‘Territories of Desire/Territories of Despair’, Buckingham,
- Quebec 1991 Ottawa Art Gallery, ‘Extra Muros’, Ottawa
- 1990 Lake Gallery, Toronto
- 1990 Blackwood Gallery, ‘Art at the Grassroots’, University of Toronto
- 1988 Museum of Civilization, ‘Living Nature’, Ottawa
- 1997 L’Imagier Centre d’Exposition, Aylmer, Quebec