Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Linda Plunkett is a photographer and printmaker based in Dublin, Ireland. She holds an Honours BA in Photography from IADT, Dublin (2014). In 2015 Linda received the IPPA (Irish Professional Photographers Association) Award for Photographic Excellence. Her work in held in the permanent collections of the Office of Public Works and DunLaoghaire Rathdown County Council as well as many private collections at home and abroad.
Her work is represented in Ireland by SoFine Art Editions, Dublin
ARTIST STATEMENT
“My photographs are taken at the point of stillness between the in-breath and the exhalation. They are of the natural world: intimate portraits of elements of landscape that emerge from prolonged immersion. I seek out places and wait patiently for that state of light, of time suspended, of wholeness in the detail that gift me opportunities to render nature from the inside out. I want to experience and to invite the viewer to feel what the poet Hopkins called the deep down things. Dawn and dusk are favourite times and fog and soft rain are often my chosen conditions, enhancing the sense of ambiguity, of transience, of cusp. These elemental preoccupations are grounded in the materiality of photography and its various processes including post-production and printing using materials such as gold leaf, gouache paint and distinctive Japanese papers using a tradition etching press.”
EXHIBITIONS
2021 A Smith Gallery, Johnson, Texas. ‘botanical’ group show.
2020 Royal Hibernian Academy 190th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2020 Royal Ulster Academy 139th Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2020 Our Colours : Artworks from the DunLaoghaire County Collection, Municipal Gallery, Lexicon Library, Dublin.
2019 Royal Ulster Academy 138th Annual Exhibition, Belfast.
2019 Royal Hibernian Academy 189th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2016 Chasing Shadows photographic collective, Gallery X, Dublin
2016 Selection of Works from DunLaoghaire-Rathdown County Council's Contemporary Art Collection, Mill Theatre, Dundrum, Dublin.
2016 Chasing Shadows photographic collective, The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, UK.
2015 Royal Hibernian Academy 185th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2015 Chasing Shadows photographic collective, Gallery X, Dublin.
2015 Chasing Shadows Group Show, Julia Margaret Cameron Centre, Isle of Wight. UK.
2014 Emerging Artists Showcase, National Centre for Arts and Health, Tallaght, Dublin.
2014 Graduate Exhibition, The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Co Wicklow.
2014 National Student Art Awards , Royal Dublin Society, Dublin
2014 Royal Hibernian Academy 184th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2014 IADT Graduation Show, IADT DunLaoghaire, Dublin.
2014 Ingrained, Moxie Studios, Dublin.
2012 Silent Moments Group Show, Moxie Studios, Dublin.
PRESS
2021 Irish Arts Review, Spring Edition - feature by Stephanie McBride
Her work is represented in Ireland by SoFine Art Editions, Dublin
ARTIST STATEMENT
“My photographs are taken at the point of stillness between the in-breath and the exhalation. They are of the natural world: intimate portraits of elements of landscape that emerge from prolonged immersion. I seek out places and wait patiently for that state of light, of time suspended, of wholeness in the detail that gift me opportunities to render nature from the inside out. I want to experience and to invite the viewer to feel what the poet Hopkins called the deep down things. Dawn and dusk are favourite times and fog and soft rain are often my chosen conditions, enhancing the sense of ambiguity, of transience, of cusp. These elemental preoccupations are grounded in the materiality of photography and its various processes including post-production and printing using materials such as gold leaf, gouache paint and distinctive Japanese papers using a tradition etching press.”
EXHIBITIONS
2021 A Smith Gallery, Johnson, Texas. ‘botanical’ group show.
2020 Royal Hibernian Academy 190th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2020 Royal Ulster Academy 139th Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2020 Our Colours : Artworks from the DunLaoghaire County Collection, Municipal Gallery, Lexicon Library, Dublin.
2019 Royal Ulster Academy 138th Annual Exhibition, Belfast.
2019 Royal Hibernian Academy 189th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2016 Chasing Shadows photographic collective, Gallery X, Dublin
2016 Selection of Works from DunLaoghaire-Rathdown County Council's Contemporary Art Collection, Mill Theatre, Dundrum, Dublin.
2016 Chasing Shadows photographic collective, The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, UK.
2015 Royal Hibernian Academy 185th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2015 Chasing Shadows photographic collective, Gallery X, Dublin.
2015 Chasing Shadows Group Show, Julia Margaret Cameron Centre, Isle of Wight. UK.
2014 Emerging Artists Showcase, National Centre for Arts and Health, Tallaght, Dublin.
2014 Graduate Exhibition, The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Co Wicklow.
2014 National Student Art Awards , Royal Dublin Society, Dublin
2014 Royal Hibernian Academy 184th Annual Exhibition, Dublin.
2014 IADT Graduation Show, IADT DunLaoghaire, Dublin.
2014 Ingrained, Moxie Studios, Dublin.
2012 Silent Moments Group Show, Moxie Studios, Dublin.
PRESS
2021 Irish Arts Review, Spring Edition - feature by Stephanie McBride