Bob Lynn

Bob Lynn was born in Scotland in 1940 and educated at Edinburgh College of Art. Having lived in Poland and London, he moved to Wicklow where he still lives and works. While chairman of Éigse Carlow Visual Committee he made a significant contribution to the development of arts in the South East region. He has exhibited in John Moore’s exhibition, Liverpool; Royal Institute of Watercolours, London; Upper Street Gallery, London; Waterman Fine Art, London; Carlow Éigse; Tom Caldwell Galleries, Dublin and Belfast; Oireachtas, Dublin; Royal Hibernian Academy Summer Exhibitions and Banquet Exhibition; Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; Hillsboro Fine art Gallery, Dublin and Glasgow Print Studio. He has work in public collections such as AIB, Dublin; Jefferson Smurfit Group plc, Arthur Cox & Co., OPW, Dublin; N.U.I -U.C.D; University of Limerick and City Bank, London.

Lynn was an Invited Artist in a number of Éigse Carlow shows between 1989 and 2002 and also took part in Éigse’s thirty-year retrospective at VISUAL Carlow in 2010.

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Origins

Set up in 1992, The Carlow Art Collection is a voluntary community initiative that has been surrounded by goodwill and generosity from the people of Carlow. It has expanded into a diverse collection of work with artists from around the world. CAC became a fully registered charity in 2018. The home of our art collection is in Carlow College. The Carlow Art Collection is free to view in the front halls of Carlow College, Monday to Friday, and in the garden every day of the year.

Today

The art works in the permanent collection include painting, print, drawing, sculpture, sound, photography, live art, film and activism, with more to come. The collection and CAC projects reflect a broad range of art by over thirty artists, many of whom visited, exhibited, engaged with or lived in the area.

Our Goal

The CAC is deeply indebted to the artists who contribute to the collection, to its board members past and present, and to the many people and organisations that support it technically and financially. The Carlow Art Collection will continue to expand on the ideas of what art is and what an art collection can be, and become.