Born in 1973, Claire Halpin is a visual artist, curator and arts educator based in Dublin. She was awarded a Masters in painting from Grays School of Art at Robert Gordon University, Scotland, in 1998.

Halpin’s work explores themes and concepts around contested territories and histories through painting, video and installation. Her recent series of paintings are a response to sites of conflict and protest – from cultural wars, the Pandemic, storming of the Capitol, to the war in Ukraine as well as the ongoing forgotten wars away from the media lens.

“I am influenced by the complex compositions of space and time in Renaissance painting, allowing multiple narratives and timescales to co-exist in the same picture plane and use these compositional devices in my work … I strive to create work that raises questions about how we choose to record history and the veracity of painting, photography and the media in documenting future history”.