Lauren Conway and Jacqui McIntosh in conversation

August 2024

Artist-in-residence Lauren Conway spoke with Jacqui McIntosh, Archivist and Curator at The College of Psychic Studies to discuss Conway's ongoing project, The Healing System.

The Healing System 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. Conway is developing a new series of quasi-sculptural, time-based works working with the meticulously curated, hyper-colour-coordinated filing system that her sister has developed to study both fields.

McIntosh is a researcher, curator and writer based in London. Her research encompasses feminist, mediumistic and esoteric histories, with a particular interest in artists whose spiritual development has evolved in tandem with their artistic output.

This event formed part of the public programme for Conway’s eight-week residency at Studio Voltaire in 2024.

  1. Lauren Conway (b. 1999, Galway) is a Dublin-based artist. 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. She is the recipient of RHA Graduate Studio Award 2022, The Arts Council Bursary Award 2022, The DLR/IADT Emerging Artist Bursary 2021, and The Dock/IADT Graduate Award 2021 for her graduate exhibition A Great Public Meeting. 

    Recent exhibitions include Things Changed, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, (2024), Lockjaw, Ranelagh Arts, (2023), Remembering the Future, VISUAL Carlow (2023), A Great Public Meeting, The Dock (2022), Rendering New Realities, Access and Alterity, The Douglas Hyde (2021), and Karen, Ormond Art Studios (2021). Conway is currently working towards a solo exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin in early 2025.

  2. Jacqui McIntosh is an Archivist and Curator at the College of Psychic Studies in London where she cares for their extensive collection of spirit-inspired art, photography and artefacts from 1850 to today.

    From 2023-2024 McIntosh was a recipient of a Curatorial Research Grant from Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and curated the exhibition The Time of Our Lives (Drawing Room, 2024), which explored the role that drawing has played within feminist activism.

  3. Video by Rita Silva

A detailed painting in blue and green hues of a shelf with book and various files

Lauren Conway Residency

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