Born in Newtownards in 1966 to Frances and Paddy Lawson, who had returned to Northern Ireland to oversee the design and building of the Ulster Museum extension, bronagh sent her first two years on the Upper Newtownards Road with her three older sisters before moving to Portaferry in 1968. After Frances and Paddy separated in the seventies, the girls and Frances moved to a council house in Strangford. Educadted at Down High School . Downpatrick, in 1986 Bronagh attended art college in Bristol and then gained a first class degee in Textiles and fashion at Winchester school of Art, Hampshire. Moving to London on graduation, she won a Fulbright scholarship and attended Parsons School of Design in New York. Bronagh sometimes visited Northern Ireland and despired. Returning to Northern Ireland from New York pre-creasefire,she spent some time as a participant on various cross-community developlment programmes before deciding to use her creativity in a different way. For thirteen years she set up and ran cross- border cross community development programmes mostly within the enterprise sector in interface areas in Belfast. Within this gift of a time she investigated her own socialization of being brought up in rural coastal Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and heard many stories from people in the city similar to life she saw only on the TV growing up-and often switched off as it was so horrific. Bronagh returned to her artistic practice after collapsing in work one day, finding years of experience to fuel her output. her first book captures her open minded curiosity of what would happen as a non church goer decided to visit every church in Belfast for a service simply following an artistic thread.