Megan Byrne
Traces Left Behind
Working mainly with themes of the unnoticed landscapes and memory leads to her most recent work titled Traces Left Behind. This is a series of film photographs taken in the artist’s grandparents’ home in the midlands of Ireland. The aim was to capture the traces left behind by a person from one generation to the next. As the home is still lived in by the family passed down, and the stillness of the home from the 1950’s to today is still preserved as if stuck in time. As the artist only has very few memories of her grandparents before they passed, this project was to capture the echoes of the lives they once lived.
As well as the lives that are still present today some remain only of the mindset of the generations long gone. Captured through this work some of the unspoken and quietness of the past of rural Ireland, in comparison to today’s constant ever-changing world before its lost.
Biography
Megan Byrne is currently in her final year studying Fine Art Photography and Moving Image in Limerick School of Art and Design TUS. Her practice is centred around the almost forgotten environments and landscapes that are surrounding us in our everyday lives. Whilst documenting the subtleness of this through the process of analogue photography and filmmaking.
Previous Exhibitions
December, 2020 - January 2021 - Luan Gallery Winter Art Fair, Photographic works from my project Elusive exhibited as part of the Luan Gallery’s first winter art fair featuring midland’s based artists
April, 2020 - Isolate, Online Exhibition, Exhibited my photography and video piece titled Evasive in an online collective
January - February, 2020 - Mixtape, South Tipperary Clonmel Arts Center, Apart of a joined group collaboration of Photography, Film and Video & Sculpture and Combined media Limerick School of Art and Design students. Including a projection mapping showcasing a collection of our video projects
PRINT.ed #5, Artist Book Fair, Espai Cultural EINA, Barra De Ferro, Barcelona, My handmade photobook titled Transience was chosen to be a part of this book fair
Instagram: @meganellenbyrne
Email: megbyrnemail@gmail.com