Irene Buchan graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2024 with a First Class honours degree in Fine Art (Painting & Printmaking).

Her current work focuses on the institutional aesthetics of a commonly used object and how that image of a male-identified object can be reappropriated. It highlights the sociological and repressed evaluation of what the urinal represents in contemporary culture and identifies the association between mass produced items and man-made objects relating to the body and stereotypical gender roles.

Pink Urinals stems from her early experience as the only female surveyor on a construction site and the blatant sexist behaviour of male co-workers.

Pink Urinals are a component of a series in which body forms—male, female, phallic, pregnant belly, androgynous, fluid, and non-binary—are portrayed through the creation of slip clay ceramics and other softer materials using an inverse cast of the original urinal cast.