RUTH E LYONS
Throughout the year Kunstverein Aughrim will work with Lyons on the development of two new bodies of work; The Sea Inside Us, a film by Ruth E Lyons and Colm Hogan that chronicles the human relationship to the sea through salt, and Until You Become Weightless, a series of sculptural portraits of the artist’s family as rocks. In May 2025 Lyons will host a live event at her studio in Mulranny, on Ireland’s wild Atlantic coast. This performative preview is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, and marks the launch of a new exhibition by Lyons at The Linenhall Arts Centre, County Mayo. From tracing the seam of an ancient sea, to imagining kin as future megaliths in the making, Lyons’ sculptural imagination reaches for the eternal, powered by a deep sense of the transience of life.
Ruth E Lyons is an independent artist based in Clew Bay, Co. Mayo. She works primarily in sculpture creating gallery and public works concerned with landscape. She recently realised two major public artworks, Wave Junction, 2023, Quantum Park, Dublin and SUPERUNIFICATION, 2022, Honeypark, Dublin. Lyons’ work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of the OPW, National Gallery of Ireland and Arts Council of Ireland. Since 2014 Lyons has been working on an expansive project with EUSalt and the saltmines of Europe creating carvings from the ancient Zechstein Sea. Recent exhibitions include: New Perspectives, National Gallery of Ireland, 2021, Shaping Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, 2019, Borderlines, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh and The Edge @ Bath Uni, 2019, The Necessity of Art, Grazer Kunstverein Summer Programme, Austria, 2017, Forecast of the Next Century, 2016, Broad Art Museum, Michigan, Riddle of the Burial Grounds, 2016, Extra City, Antwerp and Follies of Youth, Hepworth Wakefield Gallery, Yorkshire, 2015.
www.ruthelyons.com
Kunstverein Aughrim’s collaboration with Ruth E Lyons is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and by Wicklow County Arts Office through the annual Strategic Project Award Scheme.