Lauren Haughey
is a multidisciplinary visual artist, writer and event organiser based in Dublin.
Her practice is mainly concerned with exploring our present historical moment; a time of increasing techno-cultural accexxleration and profound alienation and disembodiment. 
Any profound moment of change is flagged by an permeability of boundaries, and Haughey's practice places a magnifying glass on these intersections of identity and culture. Her work engages with themes of cyborgification; between nature, technology, humanity and culture.
She values magic and mythos, and engages with the inexplicable and illusory as a way of understanding the present world, and generating imaginations of new worlds to come.

Selected works
2025
Creggan

2024
Source, Stream, Encryption
Infinity Point

2023
Into the Furze
Household Code

2022
Circadian Supplement
Spiders

2021
Vertical Fence

Food Art
Hedge Scullery (2025)
Sculpture Supper (2025)
Kale Kultures (2023)
Chleb i Sol (2023)

Writing
2025
The Reproduction of Tiki and the Hawaiian Original
Smart Devices and the Myth of Magical Ease
2024
Fermentation as Embodied Ecological Practice


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Fences
This series of work was inspired by my study of the agricultural fences in my local area.
Every fence is a mishmash of seemingly random materials- plastic rope, barbed wire, deer fence, chicken wire, brambles, planks, sticks, chainlink...
It's often hard to tell where the original line of the fence was laid, since so many repairs have been made over the years.
Very often these modifications seem to have taken place with whatever resources the repairer had to hand, creating a chaotic jumbled mess that's difficult to discern from the hedgerow it's placed upon.
When sections of a fence collapse or are trampled, they generally aren't removed and instead new fencing material is added to supplement the void left.
When you look at a lot of these fences it's almost impossible to tell which sections are still load bearing.

I'm interested in these fences because I think they speak to a tradition of repair and regeneration, in a chaotic and informal way. Many of these fences are decades old, and in some instances a chronological material evolution can be observed, wherein later modifications have been made with plastic tape to a cast iron fence, for example.
As a metaphor, the agricultural fence carries many loaded connotations; 
The question of land ownership and agricultural land usage and stewardship
tradition and heritage
the line between wildness and domesticity
Man's attempt to bound the un-boundable34/98/5973