About
Lauren Conway is an Irish artist living and working in London, United Kingdom. Conway graduated from her BA at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology Dún Laoghaire in 2021; and, in 2025 was awarded the George Moore Postgraduate Scholarship in support of her postgraduate studies.
She is currently an MFA candidate at Goldsmiths College, London, and is a member of the 2026 cohort of Apollo Painting School, Manchester.
In 2024 Conway was in residence at Studio Voltaire, London, developing a new body of work The Healing System which was the subject of a solo exhibition at the RHA, Dublin 2025. Recent Exhibitions include Cold Call, Hypha Studios (2026), Eye and Mind, WIP Space (2026) 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)
She has taught at the National College of Art and Design Dublin and The Royal Hibernian Academy Schools.
She is currently an MFA candidate at Goldsmiths College, London, and is a member of the 2026 cohort of Apollo Painting School, Manchester.
In 2024 Conway was in residence at Studio Voltaire, London, developing a new body of work The Healing System which was the subject of a solo exhibition at the RHA, Dublin 2025. Recent Exhibitions include Cold Call, Hypha Studios (2026), Eye and Mind, WIP Space (2026) 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)
She has taught at the National College of Art and Design Dublin and The Royal Hibernian Academy Schools.
Statement
Lauren Conway is a Dublin and London 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. A running concern throughout her work is a desire to explore empty educational spaces that question and challenge aspirational promises put forward by states through formal education. The work opens up a space for further connections to be made beyond the educational, exploring tensions between empty school sites and the sensitive, exploratory writings, drawings and worldviews of those that inhabit them.
Her practice involves simultaneous strands of thematic enquiry. Ongoing projects include The Comet (2022-ongoing) 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; as well as The Healing System (2024-ongoing) which investigates the conflict between her twin sister’s studies in astrology, tarot, crystal healing and her demanding, logic-driven studies in bio-pharmaceutical chemistry.