Irene (she/her) is an Argentinian artist and practice-based researcher pursuing her PhD in Art at Edinburgh College of Art, funded by the ECA PhD Scholarship.  

Her doctoral research ‘Polyphonic assemblages in living sculptures: An interdisciplinary and interspecies study of circadian rhythms’ involves cross-school collaboration between the School of Art and the School of Biological Sciences.  

In a context of increasing imperatives of hyper-productivity and hyper-connectivity, acceleration of our everyday life and escalating environmental crisis, this research seeks to learn from shared and living temporal patterns in order to imagine ecological coexistence through art. Drawing from chronobiology, focusing on plants’ rhythmicity, and highlighting the embodied and affective knowledge intrinsic to sculpture practice, she investigates multispecies and ecological dimensions of time.  

Irene holds a Master in Arts & Humanities from University of Dundee (UK); and a Teaching and Bachelor's degree, with a double major in Sculpture and Printmaking - from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). She obtained best grade average recognitions in both institutions and support from the Global Excellence Scholarship for her MFA studies.

She has shown her work internationally in Europe and South America. Recent exhibitions took place at the Valencia Botanical Garden (2023), Edinburgh Hidden Door Festival (2023). She co-curated the exhibition ‘Dwelling in Extremis’ (2022); presented at DJCAD PG symposia (2021, 2022), Semana del Hongo (2024), MACLA Museo (2018); and published in art journals in Ecuador (2022) and UK (2023).