Lauren Dawson Down, United Kingdom
Lauren Dawson is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Northern Ireland, with an environmental focus. Lauren graduated with a BA Hons in Fine and Applied Art from the University of Ulster Belfast in 2008, and a Masters in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies in 2010, specialising in art curating.
Lauren Dawson is a multidisciplinary visual artist specialising in printmaking, while also working in painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture.
Her practice is guided by the atmospheres of nature and climate - fragile thresholds where calm tips into turbulence, and moments of stillness hold a charged weight of anticipation. These ideas underpin Lauren’s current body of work, Transience.
Lauren held her first solo exhibition, Permian, at Haptik Gallery, Newtownards (2018), and has since exhibited at For Earth’s Sake, In-Spire Gallery, Dublin (2019), with her work selected for award support from SSE Airtricity, and later presented with Patagonia Dublin as part of Dublin Culture Night, for the Global Climate Strike. Other exhibitions include ForM Sculpture Exhibition (2017, 2019, 2021), Black Canvas Gallery, Belfast Print Workshop, and the Royal Ulster Academy.
Alongside her practice, Lauren currently works full-time professionally in the arts sector, specialising in curating, for the past 13 years.
She is hold professional membership with Visual Artists Ireland [NI].
Projects and exhibitions
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Transience01/08/2025 — ongoing My current project series is entitled ‘Transience’ featuring a multidisciplinary exploration of the shifting moods of nature, especially the quiet that lingers before and between storms. In these pauses, the world feels suspended—reeds bending at the water’s edge, the air heavy with anticipation, silence thick as if holding its... [Read more] |
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Form Sculpture Exhibition01/06/2021 — 30/06/2021 Form Sculpture Exhibition is an annual exhibition curated by the Arts Service of Ards and North Down Borough Council. Explore sculptures and artworks in the beautiful surroundings of The Walled Garden at Bangor Castle. ForM Sculpture Exhibition gives visitors the unique opportunity to experience art in a different context, outside the... [Read more] |
Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Bangor | Details |
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For Earth’s Sake01/07/2019 — 31/07/2019 An exhibition of curated works from environmental artists from across Ireland, selected by Friend’s of the Earth. Lauren exhibited a number of sculptures and analog photography in this group exhibition. |
In-Spire Gallerie, Dublin | Details |
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Form Sculpture Exhibition01/06/2019 — 30/06/2019 Form Sculpture Exhibition is an annual exhibition curated by the Arts Service of Ards and North Down Borough Council. Explore sculptures and artworks in the beautiful surroundings of The Walled Garden at Bangor Castle. ForM Sculpture Exhibition gives visitors the unique opportunity to experience art in a different context, outside the... [Read more] |
Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Bangor | Details |
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Permian01/08/2018 — 30/09/2018 A solo exhibition by Lauren Dawson featuring sculpture and analog photography. The exhibition explored the current environmental crisis and the Permian Mass Extinction. |
Haptik Gallery, Newtownards | Details |
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ForM Sculpture Exhibtion01/06/2017 — 30/06/2017 Form Sculpture Exhibition is an annual exhibition curated by the Arts Service of Ards and North Down Borough Council. Explore sculptures and artworks in the beautiful surroundings of The Walled Garden at Bangor Castle. ForM Sculpture Exhibition gives visitors the unique opportunity to experience art in a different context, outside the... [Read more] |
Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Bangor | Details |