About
Lauren Conway
graduated from the Institute of Art, Design and Technology Dún Laoghaire in 2021 and has also studied at the University of the Arts Helsinki and the Royal Hibernian
Academy School. In 2021 she was the recipient of the RHA Graduate Studio Award, The DLR/IADT Emerging Artist Bursary, and The Dock/IADT Graduate Award for her graduate exhibition A Great Public Meeting. In 2024 Conway was in residence at Studio Voltaire, London developing a new body of work The Healing System which is the subject of a solo exhibition at he RHA, Dublin 2025. Exhibitions include All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun, Dublin Castle, Dublin, (2025), Draw a Card, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, (2025), Things Changed, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, (2024), Remembering the Future, VISUAL Carlow, Carlow, (2023), A Great Public Meeting, The Dock, Leitrim, (2022)
Academy School. In 2021 she was the recipient of the RHA Graduate Studio Award, The DLR/IADT Emerging Artist Bursary, and The Dock/IADT Graduate Award for her graduate exhibition A Great Public Meeting. In 2024 Conway was in residence at Studio Voltaire, London developing a new body of work The Healing System which is the subject of a solo exhibition at he RHA, Dublin 2025. Exhibitions include All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun, Dublin Castle, Dublin, (2025), Draw a Card, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, (2025), Things Changed, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, (2024), Remembering the Future, VISUAL Carlow, Carlow, (2023), A Great Public Meeting, The Dock, Leitrim, (2022)
Statement
Lauren Conway is a Dublin based visual artist who uses archival materials, documentation
from site visits, and found images in her drawing, painting and installation processes in order to explore experiences of education in Ireland. A running concern throughout her work is a desir to explore empty educational spaces that question and challenge aspirational promises put forward by the state through formal education.
The work opens up a space for further connections to be made beyond the educational,
exploring tensions between the empty school sites and the sensitive, exploratory writings,
drawings and worldviews of those that inhabit them.
Her current works in progress include a collaborative drawing project with her younger brother, a film student at St.John’s Central College Cork; approached with a pre-emptive concern that he may be magic. And an ongoing project The Healing System which investigates the conflict between her twin sister’s studies in astrology, tarot and crystal healing and her demanding, logic-driven studies in bio-pharmaceutical chemistry.