Lane Shipsey

From July until September 2026

The Irish artist Lane Shipsey, from Cork, will be our guest at Gleis70 from July until the end of September. She works across a range of disciplines; her repertoire includes photography and video, as well as painting and drawing.

London‑born and Dublin‑raised, she now works in Ireland as a resident artist at DAS Studios Belfast. She holds degrees from DCU and UCC, creates photocollage, assemblage, and award‑winning short films, and her series Constitutional appears with Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool. Her work has also featured in Reservoir Road, Cassandra Voices, and other journals.

Her main focus during her residency will be on the artist Eva Wipf, to whom a museum in Pfäffikon, Zurich, is dedicated. Eva Wipf, an artist critical of her times, championed equality from an early age – issues that were uncomfortable then and remain so today. Lane aims to reflect all of this in a portrait. Climate change is also a recurring theme in Lane Shipsey’s documentaries; she intends to explore Switzerland from this perspective.

Lane is looking forward to swimming in the lake, inspiring museum visits and the opportunity to get to know the people at Gleis70.