Join us in the Wildflower Cafe at Butler Gallery for an artist reading and conversation with Laura Ní Fhlaibhín. To mark the end of Laura’s research residency, Laura will read a collection of her writings, which have been created over the course of the Soil Project in 2025. Expect a mulchy composty text-mix of soils, health, earthworms and even some tea. This will be an evening event of readings, warming refreshments and an informal conversation that will focus on Laura’s research whilst at Butler Gallery over the last year.
The Soil Project:
The Soil Project is an annual commission at Butler Gallery which supports invited artists to create participatory projects which connect deeply with our environment. The resident artist in 2025 was Laura Ní Fhlaibhín.
About the Artist
Laura Ní Fhlaibhín is an artist from Wexford and completed her MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2019 with Distinction and her BA at NCAD Dublin in 2013. She is the recipient of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin Staff Prize Bursary, the Goldsmiths Graduate Almacantar Bursary 2019, Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Award 2020, Arts Council England Developing Creative Practice Award 2021 and Arts Council of Ireland Bursaries. Laura was a studio participant at Conditions Programme London and at Firestation, Dublin.She is a Gilbert Bayes Royal Sculpture Society Awardee 2024 and was twice shortlisted for the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award U.K, 2023 and 2024. Laura’s work features in the Arts Council of Ireland collection and private collections. Laura undertook a research residency at The Henry Moore Research Institute Leeds in 2024 and is the Derek Hill Scholarship Residency recipient at The British School of Rome, 2025.
Solo and two-person exhibitions include Britta Rettberg Gallery, Munich (2024), The Complex Dublin (2024), Commonage, London (2024), Belmacz London (2023) Palfrey London (2020). Recent group exhibitions include Hollybush Gardens London (2025) and ‘Footfalls’, curated by Yara Sonseca, Britta Rettberg Gallery, Munich (2024), The Irish Museum of Modern Art and Ormston House/EVA international (2025).
