Information – Laurence Hynes

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Laurence Hynes is an Irish visual artist who works primarily in the medium of photography. His practice is concerned with landscape, place, and the human relationship with the Earth.

Projects include This present earth (2023) and Roam (2021 – 2022), both in the Maumturk mountain range in western Ireland, and What might be left standing (2025) at sites of historic piers around Galway Bay. His publication Made by nature to decay was selected for the 2024 Dublin Art Book Fair. A debut solo exhibition, What might be left standing, took place in the University of Galway Gallery in 2025.

He holds an MA in Creative Practice, with first class honours, from the Atlantic Technological University, was awarded the ATU Radius Project Bursary in 2022, and was the recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award in 2023. He won the Source New Writing Prize in 2025.

In 2025 he won a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship, awarded by Research Ireland, to undertake a PhD in the Centre for Irish Studies, University of Galway, under the supervision of Dr. Nessa Cronin. His doctoral research is on Tim Robinson's cartographic work in the west of Ireland.