A Great Public Meeting - The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon (2022)
12 February - 2 April 2022
This body of work, A Great Public Meeting explores empty educational spaces that question and challenge the aspirational promises put forward by the state through formal education. However, once students, teachers and communities fill these spaces the promises made are not always delivered upon and the fallibility of the modernist architectural ideals become apparent. The work opens up a space for further connections to be made beyond the educational, that hold to account long overdue commitments to care on social and physical levels. Through the use of archival materials, documentation from site visits, and found images from her teenage years, Conway explores tensions between the empty school sites and the dense, awkward dancefloors of teenage discos.
Pass-Maths, Ink on Paper, 30cm x 42cm, 2021
Swamp Thing, Pencil on Paper, 42cm x 30cm, 2021
Celbridge, Ink on Paper, 30cm x 42cm, 2021
Claregalway (1), Ink on Paper, 21cm x 30cm, 2021
Claregalway (4), Ink on Paper, 21cm x 30cm, 2021
Claregalway (2), Ink on Paper, 21cm x 30cm, 2021
Diagrams (1-4), Pencil on Paper, 20cm x 30cm, 2021