Tessa Lynch

BIOGRAPHY

Tessa Lynch is a Glasgow based artist who works predominantly with sculpture and performance. Her work is designed to offer feminist readings of the city, highlighting issues of social reproduction that are at odds with contemporary art.

She describes her practice as work and life held in one place, intermingling and blurred. Lynch is interested in the politics that shape the world and how they’re reflected in what we see and experience on a day-to-day basis. She is fascinated by the emotional impact of the environment, specifically the built environment, urban settings, how they’re shaped and controlled and, in turn, how they shape us.

Tessa is a keen collaborator and regularly works with artists Rhona Warwick Paterson, Rachel Adams and writer/curator Jenny Richards. She sees this as a way of carving out a female support system amongst her peers in order to make work that is representative of a shared human experience.

In 2019 Lynch developed a collaborative art practice with Rachel Adams, working under the name Gabecare. The name and associated works are inspired by the little known inventor Frances Gabe, whose design for a Self Cleaning House became her life’s work.