Clare Lyons

Born: 1993, Dublin, currently in Belfast/Dublin. 

Education: MFA Photography, Belfast School of Art, BA Hons Photography, IADT.

Exhibitions: Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, ‘Images Are All We Have’, Group, Dublin, July-August 2022. Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, ‘On The Irish Photobook', Group, Dublin, July-August 2022. Quai des Celestins (Outdoor Exhibition, not a gallery), ‘Visage(s) d’Europe’, Group, Paris, May 2022. The Library Project, ‘FUTURES Irish Talent Showcase’, Group, Dublin, October 2021. Belfast Exposed, ‘A Lightness of Touch, Group’, Belfast, June-July 2021. OPW Touring Exhibition, ‘Life in Still Life’, Group, Tyrone, Down, Dublin & Galway 2020. Rathfarnham Castle, ‘The Invention of Memory’, Group, Dublin 2019. Arts, Letters & Numbers, ‘Back Into Your Mind’, Solo, New York, 2019.

Project Title: Every Saturday

I was born in 1993, but my official birth certificate was issued three years later in 1996. Following court orders, I spent every Saturday with the man listed as my biological father, but he is not my Dad.

Every Saturday is the culmination of a lifetime of trauma, pain, and confusion, resulting in an autobiographical narrative which reflects on identity and what it means to be family. Through experimental methods of working with my family archive and childlike crafting using ephemeral materials from the landscape, the story affirms my sense of self, connection with my Dad, and confirms that love goes much deeper than biological connection.

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