Lynn Murphy
BIOGRAPHY
Lynn Murphy is an artist and educator based in Dublin, Ireland. She has a degree in visual art (specialising in paint) from IADT and is currently undertaking a professional masters degree in art and design education at the National College of Art and Design.
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Lynn has always had a passion for teaching and working with young people, volunteering in schools abroad, working at camps or teaching kayaking (see C.V. below for more details). Her second level course of art and design at the High School was a positive experience. Her art teacher's holistic approach to teaching allowed her to develop a sense of individuality and instilled a firm belief within Lynn that an art teacher can be extremely inspiring in a student’s life both inside and outside of the classroom.
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Completing a degree in visual art, focusing on print and paint, was a great way to develop as an artist and experiment with a range of processes and materials.
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Lynn has exhibited work in Pallas Projects Studios, The Mart Gallery, NCAD Gallery and completed a four month artist residency at IMMA.
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Her work reflects people's experiences and how their surroundings can make them feel. Understanding human's inherent connection and draw towards the sea is a reoccurring theme within this work. This is represented through photography and paintings on discarded or unfinished woodblocks from her time studying print. Lynn believes that experimenting and continuously learning about different art mediums and techniques is vital to inform her practice as a visual art educator.
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Before returning to college to complete her masters Lynn worked as an assistant art teacher in Greenhills College and the High School. She also assisted with student council meetings ,the ECO club and charity events, attended Junior Cycle training days and taught computing to adults in Greenhills Further Education. She attended three other JCT days during her two school placements for the Masters including; JCT Visual Art, Wellbeing and Visual Art and Classroom Based Assessments. This involvement allowed her to gain a breadth of knowledge about the education system of art and design.
Lynn is registered with the Teaching Council of Ireland, is Garda vetted and has extensive experience teaching learners of different ages and with those with additional learning needs.
Lynn strongly believes that teachers should pass on the knowledge that art not only matters in the classroom but instead in all aspects of life. They should guide learners to respond to what is happening around them on a personal, local, national and global level while understanding and responding to a range of social, justice and environmental themes.
During Year 1 of the Professional Master of Education course at NCAD, Lynn's class presented a collaborative project that responded to some of these themes or issues. The class presented their work on the night of the exhibition. Following on from this, Lynn's group were asked to speak about their work, which tackled the global issue of Fast Fashion, to guest speaker again INSERT NAME HERE!!! and her experience and importance of doing the PME in an art college.
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Lynn was also asked to speak to the 1st Year Masters students and Degree students in art education about her experience of the Special Education Needs placement she completed in Mill Lane, Stewarts Care.
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