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Laura Skehan is an artist and researcher (b. 1993) working between Dublin, Ireland and Berlin, Germany.
Skehan’s practice focuses on the relationship between human and non-human entities in the built environmental and natural landscape, prompting phenomenological and philosophical questions about our place in the world. Working predominantly in moving image, sound and sculpture installation, she explores the interactions that human centric behaviours and technologies impose on this relationship. Her current research examines modes of observation, collection and display of objects and organic material in institutions and unpacks historical narratives to illustrate the volatility and fragility of this relationship.
Recent exhibitions include Periodical Review 14 at Pallas Project/Studios, Dublin, IRE (2024), INTERZONE, ZK/U Berlin (2024), Irish Energy at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin (2024), ‘Home as Land, Home as Island; Traversing Cultures’ at Annabelles Home, Reykjavik
(2023), ‘A Future Distant Memory Calls’ at Roscommon Arts Centre (2023) and ‘Confliction’ Malahide Castle October (2023).
Upcoming 2025 shows include Vessels of Time at Con/Temporary Spaces Mazzini, Turin, Italy and Sun Valley Museum of Art, Idaho, USA.
Skehan has been supported through the Arts Council Project Award, Dublin City Arts Office Bursary Award, the Fingal Artists Support Scheme Award, the Arts Council Agility Award and Culture Ireland and the Goethe Institute.
She was awarded the Dublin Fringe Festival’s ‘Make Space for Art Scheme’ in 2023 for the first performance of her curatorial research project “A Symbiotic Symphonic Movement,’ a series of collaborative discussions and sonic performances exploring the intersection of human and plant migration at Botanical Gardens around Europe.
Skehan graduated with First Class Honours Degree (BA) in Fine Art from the School of Creative Arts, Technological University Dublin (former Dublin Institute of Technology) in 2016.