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John Conway is a visual artist working extensively in the field of interdisciplinary socially engaged practice, often in communities with shared complex or traumatic health experiences. His work is primarily developed through studio-centric artistic research, and is characterised by acute listening, sensitivity to context, and a robust interrogation of material possibilities and artistic processes – reconciling pioneering collaborative contextual work with innovative and ambitious visual artworks.

Recent public commissions include Listening Arrays (2025); permanent artwork at The Alders Child Sexual Assault Unit in Connolly Hospital; The Colossus (2025); temporary public artwork with mothers who have lost children to suicide in North Clondalkin; The forest that won’t forget (2024), national public artwork dedicated to the women and families across Ireland affected by the failures of the CervicalCheck programme (collaboration with Fiona Whelan). John Conway's work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Office of Public Works, the Kildare Municipal Art Collection, and the HSE.