Gallery Talk: 'vivifying contacts', Lucy Stein in conversation with Aleana Egan

Join artists Lucy Stein and Aleana Egan in conversation about their experience of each other’s work and practice. The two artists studied together at the Glasgow School of Art, and went on to share a studio space in Berlin. The talk will include an introduction to Lucy Stein's practice and her new solo exhibition, Lunula, 13 March – 03 May 2026.

Lucy Stein’s paintings draw on feminine iconography from a wide range of sources including ancient Greek mythology, medieval and ecclesiastical illuminations, as well as esoteric mysticism and folkloric imagery. Stein also responds to her personal experiences as a mother and caregiver to represent a vision of womanhood throughout time. Connecting her former life in the west of Ireland, with more recent years spent in rural Cornwall, Stein channels the inherent energies of the natural landscape that have inspired and been worshipped over millennia.

Working with sculpture, painting and film, Aleana Egan engenders psychological states through enigmatic arrangements of objects and forms. A meandering, sensuous line is carried from her sculptures into her paintings, populated by fragmentary shapes that hint at solid forms or gesture towards movement. Creating atmospheric shifts that feel open-ended, or in a state of flux, Egan articulates a worldview infused by literary, cinematic, and musical influences as well as prioritising dreaming and memories imprinted deep in the psychic landscape.

Event location Information: This event takes place in a ground-floor, street-facing Gallery. For further accessibility information please contact Learning + Public Engagement Curator Órla Goodwin.