The Complex X Mirror Lamp Press | Diana Bamimeke Responds to 'Oedipus' by Lee Welch

Image: Lee Welch, all at once, 2025, acrylic on polyester, 140 x 110 cm / 55.1 x 43.3 in.

The Complex is excited to share the second piece by Diana Bamimeke, the current writer-in-residence for the Mirror Lamp Press x The Complex programme. The programme is aimed at early-career visual arts writers based in Ireland. It is designed to help writers develop their practice by inviting them to produce up to five new responses to the exhibitions and events programmed here at The Complex.

Photo by Ishmael Claxton

Diana Bamimeke is a curator, writer and transdisciplinary artist from Dublin via Nigeria, with a primary focus on curating and creating socially engaged art.

Their second piece as part of the programme is in response to Lee Welch's Oedipus.

You can read Bamimeke 's bio and read/listen to their full response on the Mirror Lamp Press blog here.