Artist Talk: Breda Lynch | ATU Galway City
TULCA is pleased to present the Artist Talks Series as part of the 2026 programme, Veruca Salt, curated by Sinéad Keogh. Continuing its ongoing partnership with the ATU School of Design and Creative Arts, TULCA will present four talks throughout October and November 2026.
The series invites audiences to engage directly with participating artists and the curator, offering insights into their practices and the ideas shaping this year’s festival. All talks take place at ATU Galway City – Wellpark Road. Admission is free and booking is required.
Breda Lynch discusses her practice as part of the TULCA 2026 Artist Talks Series. The talk accompanies Breda Lynch’s presentation at Galway Arts Centre for Veruca Salt.
Breda Lynch
Breda Lynch - A Irish visual artist working in a variety of media, including drawing, photography, print and digital media, video and installation. She engages with dialogues and discourses on - queer feminisms, Occulture, appropriation and the economy of the image. Lynch has exhibited extensively in Ireland and abroad. International exhibitions include curated group exhibitions in Scotland, England, Iceland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Thailand, China, USA and Australia. Solo exhibitions in Ireland include: ‘If Your Not Scared The Atomic Bomb Is Not Interesting’, at The Source Gallery, Thurles Co Tipperary (2024).’Witch and Lezzie’, Ashford Gallery RHA Dublin (2017), ‘Fragments of a Lost Civilisation’- Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar (2016), ’The Pit and Other Stories’, at Siamsa Tire Gallery, Tralee (2014), ’Thursday’s Clinic’,126 Gallery, Galway (2013), ‘Strangelove’, Black Mariah, Triskel, Cork (2010),’Song to the Siren’, Galway Arts Centre (2009), ‘Place of the Crows’ and ‘Fleurs Fatales’, Context Gallery Derry (2007) and ‘Dark Brides and Silent Twins’ Limerick City Gallery of Art (2006). She is represented in a number of national collections including IMMA Dublin, The Arts Council of Ireland, OPW – Office of Public Works Ireland, NUIG Collection – Galway, Luciano Benetton Italy, Trinity College Art Collection Dublin, Limerick City Gallery Collection, University of Limerick Collection, Hunt Museum Limerick and other private collections. In 2024, Lynch presented their work ‘Cake Bomb’, at the 24th Sydney Biennale Australia, titled ‘Ten Thousand Suns’ curated by Cosmin Costinas and Inti Gerrano. This was in partnership with IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art and Culture Ireland’s INVITE programme. In April 2026 she presented work in ‘Neither Water Nor Land’ at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, curated by Anna Czaban and Krzysztof Gutfrańsk.
Artist Statement
My art practice examines the aesthetics of visual images from the public domain, with a particular interest in the rhetoric of "queer" identities, practices, and types of social regulation and protest. This interest is rooted in the emergence and evolution of popular culture and the historic assertions of socio-political movements across the circuits of social media, then as now. My practice is at once an archive of the oppositional and conservative, the radical and the phobic, and an opportunity to consider how any public claim achieves performative force through the manipulations of the visual. While I use irony, humour, and a sense of the ridiculous as a means of subversion, I am also interested in collapsing past and present. Here, my appropriations of "found" imagery and collage techniques suggest that many of the problems of the past - around identity, gender, sexuality etc. - haunt our allegedly liberal present. My work aims to be a chilling reminder of how many of us can be persuaded by the pernicious, though ultimately hopes to explode such.
Free, advance booking required
ATU Galway City
Wellpark Road
Galway, H91 DY9Y
Access
Wheelchair access
Accessible toilet
Seating available
Accessible parking available
Event Time
19 November 2026
2–3.30pm
Getting There
Bus: Wellpark Road stop
Free parking
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Veruca Salt
Curated by Sinéad Keogh
6–22 November 2026
Galway, Ireland