| James Lynch was born and grew up in
Reservoir a 1950’s northern suburb of Melbourne. He never really knew what
he wanted to do but studied fine art painting at the Victorian College of
the Arts where he now sometimes teaches. He works across various media
including drawing, installation, painting and animation. He is a member of
the collaborative group Damp, rubik (a curatorial and publishing project),
TCB gallery and is a contributing editor of Natural Selection
(www.naturalselection.org.nz). His early work frequently used painted and
hand-drawn trompe l’oeil effects to emphasize the constructed nature of our
everyday lives and fantasies. Most recently he has created a series of
artworks and animations based on a real collection of people’s dreams in
which he has appeared. His work mediates our often conflicted and
ambivalent relationships with the other. His work is held in private
collections in Belgium, Italy, Los Angeles, Mexico, Netherlands, Paris,
Sweden and Australia. He is represented by Uplands Gallery Melbourne, Mori
Gallery Sydney and Galerie Frank Paris.
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