Ceara Conway (b. 1977)  is an Irish artist from the Connemara Gaeltacht, currently based in Galway.

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Her work is self-reflexive, drawing on personal experience to engage with urgent contemporary challenges—including the preservation and loss of minority languages, climate change, and enduring patriarchal structures. She explores how these intersecting forces shape our sense of belonging and influence the connections we form with each other and with the natural, more -than -human- world. 

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Working across music, song, texts ( multilingual) and visual art ( video & photography), she creates multimedia live  performances  and art works for galleries, site-specific locations, music venues, and theatres. 

Her compositions, (Irish and English), are informed by her research and interest in literary sources, including historical texts, academic writing, poetry, and non-fiction.

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Over the past fourteen years, a central thread throughout her practice has been  exploration of lament, and both Irish and global keening practices. The performance tactics of this tradition, with its distinctive use of singing, recitation, and ritualised performance continue to be an exploration in her work. She is interested in the potency found  at the intersection of visual and vocal arts practice—a synergy deeply shaped by her contemporary practice and her upbringing within a tradition and context of song, recitation, and the Irish language.

 

Recent presentations and commissions include.  

 

Still We Gather, Galway Arts Centre (2025), Loop Film Festival, Barcelona ( 2025),  This Too Shall Pass, Galway International Arts Festival & Interface Arts ( 2025),  A Language To Shout In, Palas Studios, Dublin ( 2024), The Sky Is Falling, Ormston House. Limerick, (2024), ÉIRU, Cartoon Saloon ( 2024) currently shortlisted for the Academy Awards Jan 2025.

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Select past exhibitions and performances include, the Museum of Fine Art, Florida (2024) , Stable Gallery , Washington  (2024),  Irish Museum of Modern Art ( 2022) the Katzen Arts Centre, Washington ( 2020)  Barbican, London ( 2018)   Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and  the National Gallery of Ireland. In 2020, Conway,  premiered her vocal commission Viriditas with Galway ECOC and Saolta Arts.

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Recent residencies undertaken include the Pocahontas Opera House, West Virgina and Interface Arts, Connemara  (2024).  Her work has also been covered by various publications and media outlets including RTE Lyric FM and RTÉ Radio 1. 

She is a recipient of funding awards from the Arts Council of Ireland and Galway/City and County Arts Office.​

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For commission/performance inquiries email: conwayceara@gmail.com