Lauren Haughey

is a multidisciplinary visual artist, organiser, producer, and writer based in Dublin.  Her practice explores the cultural, technological, and ecological conditions shaping contemporary life. 

Working across performance, sculpture, installation, moving image, participatory practice, and food-based interventions, she uses research-led and process-based experimentation to investigate how stories, myths, and collective imaginaries emerge within contemporary systems of meaning. In her practice, she aims to provide a lens of enchantment and sensitivity through which to view the world, with an approach of care and curiosity.

Selected works

2026
Hotel
Something is Lost

2025
 Ad Nauseam
Creggan

2024
Source, Stream, Encryption
Infinity Point

2023
Into the Furze
Household Code

2022
Circadian Supplement
Spiders

2021
Vertical Fence

Food Art

2025-Ongoing
Hedge Scullery

2025
Sculpture Supper

2023
Kale Kultures

2023
Chleb i Sol

Event Production

 BPM

Skirmish (2021-)

Hypostasis (2023-)

Writing

2025
The Reproduction of Tiki and the Hawaiian Original

Smart Devices and the Myth of Magical Ease

Fermentation as Embodied Ecological Practice

CV

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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.