B. Galway, Ireland | Lives and works in Dublin, Ireland and London, UK
Education
2027 Goldsmiths, MFA Fine Art, United Kingdom
2026 Apollo Painting School, United Kingdom
2021 IADT, Dun Laoghaire, BA Art, Ireland
2020 University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland
2027 Goldsmiths, MFA Fine Art, United Kingdom
2026 Apollo Painting School, United Kingdom
2021 IADT, Dun Laoghaire, BA Art, Ireland
2020 University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Draw a Card, Corner Gallery, RHA, Dublin
2020 Testing, Taideyliopiston Kuvataideatemia, Helsinki, FI
Two Person
2025 False Start, Lauren Conway, Leann Herlihy, Curated by Aisling Clarke GOMA, Waterford
2024 Things Changed, Lauren Conway, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Via Apollo, Museo dell’Abbazia di Valvisciolo, Sermoneta, IT
2026 Goldsmiths MFA Interim Exhibition, London, UK
2026 Eye and Mind, WIP Space, London, UK
2026 cold call... Hypha Studios, London, UK
2025 The Collision Project 2025, Screen Service and Starling, Limerick, IE
2025 All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun, The Coach House, Dublin Castle, Dublin, IE
2020 cruxx.project, Dublin, IE
2020 Under the seams runs the pain, Ex Club x Ex Lab, Helsinki, FI
Awards
2025 George Moore Postgraduate Scholarship
2025 Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Project studio
2024 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2022 Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2022 Longlisted, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, UK
2021 RHA Graduate Studio Award
2021 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2021 Shortlisted RDS Visual Art Awards
2021 The Dock/IADT Student Award
2021 Emerging Artist Bursary Dun Laoghaire County Council
2020 Shortlisted, Science Gallery Dublin Rapid Residency
Collections
Office of Public Works, Irish State Art Collection
Private Collections
Teaching
2025 Tutor, Drawing and Research in Notebooks, NCAD CEAD
2025 Guest Lecturer, Mentored Drawing, RHA Schools
2023-2025 Tutor, Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Watercolour, CCFE Crumlin
2023 Guest Lecture, Drawing resolution, RHA Schools
2023 Guest Lecture and Studio visit, NCAD Clancy Quay professional development course
2022 DLR Lexicon, Creator and Facilitator, Buildings Through Drawings, Children’s Workshop
2022 The Douglas Hyde, Creator and Facilitator, Transition Year Festival. Drawing workshop
Residencies/Project Groups
2025 Collision Project 2025 w/Barry Gibbons, Screen Service
2025 Kylemore Abbey Winter Art Residency w/Notre Dame, New York Academy of Art, RHA
2024 Studio Voltaire Live/Work residency, London, UK
2022/23 RHA Graduate Studio Award, IE
2020/21 National Forum of Teaching and Learning Student Associate
2020/21 Member, Douglas Hyde Student Forum iii
2020 Far from the Tree workshop w/Fergus Feehily, Uni Arts Helsinki
2018 Young Art writers programme, the RHA in collaboration with Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
Selected Talks/Presentations
2024 In Conversation, Lauren Conway, Jacqui McIntosh, Studio Voltaire
2024 In Conversation, Lauren Conway, Alice Rekab, Kevin Kavanagh
2022/23 RHA Open Studios, Multiple Dates
2022 NCAD Clancy Quay, Studio Presentation to recent graduates
2021 Tour and Artist talk on exhibition Karen, Ormond Art Studios to IADT BA Students
2020 Interview trí Gaeilge, Radio Rí Rá w/Louise Bryne
2018 Reading, Dublin Art Book fair (Nov 2018) RHA young Art writers Zine launch, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Press
2026 La scuola di pittura di Louise Giovanelli e Alice Amati arriva in un’abbazia del Lazio, Giorgia Aprosio, Il Giornale dell’arte, 31 Aug 2026
2025 All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun review: 19 artists united by Flann O’Brien’s avant-garde multiplicity, Tom Lordan, Irish Times, 18 Mar 2025
2025 In Phibsboro, an artist looks a little differently at her family, Michael Lanigan, Dublin Inquirer, 15 Jan 2025
2021 RDS Visual Art Awards - meet the next generation of Irish Art, RTE News, 23 Nov 2021
2021 ENVISIONING: RDS VISUAL ART AWARDS 2021, Totally Dublin, Nov 15, 2021
2021 The RDS Arts Awards can launch careers, but what about the art of rejection? Gemma Tipton, The Irish Times, Nov 6 2021
2020 Unable to Exhibit Indoors, Artists Mock-Up Gentrified Ring Forts and More in the Mountains, Claudia Dalby, The Dublin InQuirer, 21 April 2020
Writing
2021 Clement Weather Conditions, response to the work of Eimear Walshe, Bloomers Magazine Issue 7: Ring Out Wild Bells
Other
2025 Performer, Chalk, Pond, Universe, Fergus Feehily, TBG+S
2025 Draw a Card, Corner Gallery, RHA, Dublin
2022 A Great Public Meeting, The Dock, Carrick-On-Shannon, Leitrim IR, Curated by Ruth Carroll
2021 Karen, Ormond Art Studios, Dublin IR
2021 Karen, Ormond Art Studios, Dublin IR
Two Person
2025 False Start, Lauren Conway, Leann Herlihy, Curated by Aisling Clarke GOMA, Waterford
2024 Things Changed, Lauren Conway, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Via Apollo, Museo dell’Abbazia di Valvisciolo, Sermoneta, IT
2026 Goldsmiths MFA Interim Exhibition, London, UK
2026 Eye and Mind, WIP Space, London, UK
2026 cold call... Hypha Studios, London, UK
2025 The Collision Project 2025, Screen Service and Starling, Limerick, IE
2025 All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun, The Coach House, Dublin Castle, Dublin, IE
2023 LOCKJAW, Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin, IE
2023 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin, IE
2023 Tooth, DIVA Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, IE
2023 Remembering the Future, Visual Carlow, Carlow, IE
2022 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin, IE
2021 Return to Disintegration - Periodical Review 11, Pallas Projects and Studios, Dublin, IE
2021 RDS Visual Arts Awards, RHA Gallery, curated by Vera Klute, Dublin, IE
2021 191st RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin, IE
2021 Rendering New Realities - Access and Alterity, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IE
2021 A Great Public Meeting, IADT On Show, IADT, Dublin, IE
2021 High Heart: In the Making, Pallas Projects, Dublin, IE
2023 193rd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin, IE
2023 Tooth, DIVA Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, IE
2023 Remembering the Future, Visual Carlow, Carlow, IE
2022 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin, IE
2021 Return to Disintegration - Periodical Review 11, Pallas Projects and Studios, Dublin, IE
2021 RDS Visual Arts Awards, RHA Gallery, curated by Vera Klute, Dublin, IE
2021 191st RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin, IE
2021 Rendering New Realities - Access and Alterity, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IE
2021 A Great Public Meeting, IADT On Show, IADT, Dublin, IE
2021 High Heart: In the Making, Pallas Projects, Dublin, IE
2020 Under the seams runs the pain, Ex Club x Ex Lab, Helsinki, FI
Awards
2025 George Moore Postgraduate Scholarship
2025 Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Project studio
2024 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2022 Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2022 Longlisted, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, UK
2021 RHA Graduate Studio Award
2021 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2021 Shortlisted RDS Visual Art Awards
2021 The Dock/IADT Student Award
2021 Emerging Artist Bursary Dun Laoghaire County Council
2020 Shortlisted, Science Gallery Dublin Rapid Residency
Collections
Office of Public Works, Irish State Art Collection
Private Collections
Teaching
2025 Tutor, Drawing and Research in Notebooks, NCAD CEAD
2025 Guest Lecturer, Mentored Drawing, RHA Schools
2023-2025 Tutor, Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Watercolour, CCFE Crumlin
2023 Guest Lecture, Drawing resolution, RHA Schools
2023 Guest Lecture and Studio visit, NCAD Clancy Quay professional development course
2022 DLR Lexicon, Creator and Facilitator, Buildings Through Drawings, Children’s Workshop
2022 The Douglas Hyde, Creator and Facilitator, Transition Year Festival. Drawing workshop
Residencies/Project Groups
2025 Collision Project 2025 w/Barry Gibbons, Screen Service
2025 Kylemore Abbey Winter Art Residency w/Notre Dame, New York Academy of Art, RHA
2024 Studio Voltaire Live/Work residency, London, UK
2022/23 RHA Graduate Studio Award, IE
2020/21 National Forum of Teaching and Learning Student Associate
2020/21 Member, Douglas Hyde Student Forum iii
2020 Far from the Tree workshop w/Fergus Feehily, Uni Arts Helsinki
2018 Young Art writers programme, the RHA in collaboration with Temple Bar Gallery and Studios
Selected Talks/Presentations
2024 In Conversation, Lauren Conway, Jacqui McIntosh, Studio Voltaire
2024 In Conversation, Lauren Conway, Alice Rekab, Kevin Kavanagh
2022/23 RHA Open Studios, Multiple Dates
2022 NCAD Clancy Quay, Studio Presentation to recent graduates
2021 Tour and Artist talk on exhibition Karen, Ormond Art Studios to IADT BA Students
2020 Interview trí Gaeilge, Radio Rí Rá w/Louise Bryne
2018 Reading, Dublin Art Book fair (Nov 2018) RHA young Art writers Zine launch, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Press
2026 La scuola di pittura di Louise Giovanelli e Alice Amati arriva in un’abbazia del Lazio, Giorgia Aprosio, Il Giornale dell’arte, 31 Aug 2026
2025 All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun review: 19 artists united by Flann O’Brien’s avant-garde multiplicity, Tom Lordan, Irish Times, 18 Mar 2025
2025 In Phibsboro, an artist looks a little differently at her family, Michael Lanigan, Dublin Inquirer, 15 Jan 2025
2021 RDS Visual Art Awards - meet the next generation of Irish Art, RTE News, 23 Nov 2021
2021 ENVISIONING: RDS VISUAL ART AWARDS 2021, Totally Dublin, Nov 15, 2021
2021 The RDS Arts Awards can launch careers, but what about the art of rejection? Gemma Tipton, The Irish Times, Nov 6 2021
2020 Unable to Exhibit Indoors, Artists Mock-Up Gentrified Ring Forts and More in the Mountains, Claudia Dalby, The Dublin InQuirer, 21 April 2020
Writing
2021 Clement Weather Conditions, response to the work of Eimear Walshe, Bloomers Magazine Issue 7: Ring Out Wild Bells
Other
2025 Performer, Chalk, Pond, Universe, Fergus Feehily, TBG+S