Biography
Linda Plunkett is a photographic artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She holds an Honours BA in Photography from IADT, Dublin (2014). In 2015 Linda received the IPPA (Irish Professional Photographers Association) Award for Photographic Excellence. Her work is represented in several private and public art collections at home and abroad.
“My photographs are taken at the point of stillness between the in-breath and the exhalation. They are of the natural world: intimate portraits of elements of landscape that emerge from prolonged immersion. I seek out places and wait patiently for that state of light, of time suspended, of wholeness in the detail that gift me opportunities to render nature from the inside out. I want to experience and to invite the viewer to feel what the poet Hopkins called the deep down things. Dawn and dusk are favourite times and fog and soft rain are often my chosen conditions, enhancing the sense of ambiguity, of transience, of cusp. These elemental preoccupations are grounded in the materiality of photography and its various processes including post-production and printing using materials such as gold leaf, gouache paint and distinctive Japanese papers using a tradition etching press.”
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Winter Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2022 Opening the Gates, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin Castle Printworks, Dublin
2022 Still, Contemporary Photography, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2022 Metamorphosis, Walters/ The Swimmer Venue, DLR ArtNet Group Show, Dun Laoghaire
2021 Royal Hibernian Academy, 191st Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2021 Botanical, A Smith Gallery, Johnson, Texas, USA
2020 Winter Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2020 Royal Hibernian Academy 190th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2020 Royal Ulster Academy 139th Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2020 Our Colours : Artworks from the DunLaoghaire County Collection, Municipal Gallery, Lexicon Library, Dublin
2019 Royal Ulster Academy 138th Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2019 Royal Hibernian Academy 189th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2016 Chasing Shadows photographic collective, Gallery X, Dublin
2016 Selection of Works from DunLaoghaire-Rathdown County Council’s Contemporary Art Collection, Mill Theatre, Dundrum, Dublin
2016 Chasing Shadows photographic collective, The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, UK
2015 Royal Hibernian Academy 185th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2015 Chasing Shadows photographic collective, Gallery X, Dublin
2015 Chasing Shadows Group Show, Julia Margaret Cameron Centre, Isle of Wight, UK
2014 Emerging Artists Showcase, National Centre for Arts and Health, Tallaght, Dublin
2014 Graduate Exhibition, The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Co Wicklow
2014 National Student Art Awards , Royal Dublin Society, Dublin
2014 Royal Hibernian Academy 184th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2014 IADT Graduation Show, IADT Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
2014 Ingrained, Moxie Studios, Dublin
2012 Silent Moments Group Show,Moxie Studios, Dublin