Panel Two: “(Re)Establishing Your Practice”

CHLOE AUSTIN is an interdisciplinary artist whose work bridges text and video installations to interrogate the intersections of language, history and feminism. She completed her PhD exploring queer and feminist typographic interventions at Ulster University in 2025, where she also earned an MFA in 2020, having completed a degree at MTU, Cork, in 2017. Austin’s practice explores performative approaches to archival material and typographic history, situating it within broader conversations about identity and communication. Her work has been exhibited in galleries such as Golden Thread Gallery, The LAB Gallery, and GOMA Waterford. She is currently a Freelands Fellow at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
@chloeaustinart

VIVIENNE GRIFFIN was born in Dublin. They studied fine art at Hunter College, City University of New York, and recently completed a PhD in music at SARC: The Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sound and Music. Griffin’s practice spans time-based and site-responsive works, sculpture, works on paper, and experimental sound. Moving between ancient technologies and emerging media, Griffin frequently shifts materials and modes as part of their practice. Recent shows include Dallas Invitational 2025 with Bureau, Coalescence at Shimmer, Rotterdam, 2025, and Transmediale, Berlin, 2025. They are currently a resident at Somerset House, and they teach at the Royal College of Art, London.
viviennegriffin.com   @vivienne.griffin

DIAA LAGAN is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, whose practice weaves together mythology, history, and contemporary realities to explore the complexities of human experience. Through metaphorical narratives and symbolic imagery, Diaa Lagan reinterprets ancient myths and cultural archetypes to reflect contemporary socio-political conditions. Diaa creates dialogues between past and present, merging visual, textual, and conceptual approaches across painting, sculpture, and installation. He examines how language functions as both a visual system and a carrier of cultural knowledge across diasporic histories.
@diaalagan

JOANNA PEACE is an artist and educator, formerly based in Glasgow and London, and now living in the rural west of Ireland. Her interdisciplinary practice spans sculptural installations, performances, publications, and moving image. Tethered to temporality and context, her work explores the rhythms and entanglements that connect bodies to their environments, pasts, and potential futures. Her work has been presented in venues including Glasgow International, the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow Women’s Library, and Market Gallery in Glasgow; Snehta, Athens; and Billytown, The Hague. As an educator, she is committed to amplifying the voices of others, producing radio shows, art walks, publications and exhibitions with and for communities.
joannapeace.net   @joannapeace