Marie Farrington’s sculptural practice reflects on making through geological and archaeological lenses. Using casting, carving and other spatial processes, she engages with memory, material histories, and the language of display. Informed by situated encounters with landscape and architecture, her staged arrangements register, respond to and incorporate their site and context, reflecting on the conditions of their own visibility.
Marie Farrington holds a Three Year Membership Studio at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin. As part of her cross-site project Diagonal Acts, she recently presented solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Aughrim and The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, curated by Kate Strain (both 2025), with a forthcoming solo exhibition at Commonage Projects, London (2026). Other recent solo exhibitions include The Unseen Eyebeam Crossed at PuntWG, Amsterdam (2024) and Glossaries for Forwardness at the Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin, curated by Rachel Botha (2023).
Her work has recently been included in group exhibitions at CCA Odapark, NL (2025); CCA Derry-Londonderry, NI (2024); Solstice Arts Centre, IE (2023); Collecteurs: The Museum of Private Collections (2022); Oonagh Young Gallery, IE (2022); Galerie Michaela Stock, AT (2022); and Irish Museum of Modern Art, IE (2019). Residencies include Dublin City Council’s Residential Space, Albert Cottages (2023); Department of Geology, Trinity College Dublin (2021-22); Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin (2018-22); SEA Foundation, Tilburg (2023); SÍM, Reykjavík (2018).
Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Arts Council of Ireland, the OPW Irish State Art Collection, Centre for the Environment, Trinity College Dublin and the Fingal County Council Municipal Art Collection. Marie is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland through the Visual Arts Bursary and Project Awards.
For enquiries, please contact studio@mariefarrington.com
Throughout Marie’s research as an artist, she has looked closely into the fields of geology and archaeology. Fascinated by layering, and the unstoppable force of time as a process of constant accumulation, her works became portals into other practices, through material intervention. - Kate Strain
Farrington’s fascination with the discipline of geology, her desire to see where materials take one, is not mere evidence of research diligently done. Rather the works emerge, as tactile, thoughtful, slow and peculiar tributes to connection: to reciprocal, deep and porous relationships. - Isabel Nolan
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Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
2026 (Upcoming) Diagonal Acts - Act 3, Commonage Projects, London, UK
2025 Diagonal Acts - Act 2, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, IE
2025 Diagonal Acts - Act 1, Kunstverein Aughrim, Wicklow, IE
2024 The Unseen Eyebeam Crossed, puntWG, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Glossaries for Forwardness, Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin, IE
2022 FAULTS + FOLDS, with Amy Stephens, Oonagh Young Gallery Dublin, IE
2019 Fore, Fold, Pallas Projects, Dublin, IE
2017 These Circular Ruins, Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth University, IE
2015 In good faith they waited for gravity, Rua Red Arts Centre, IE
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Public Collections
Arts Council of Ireland
OPW Irish State Art Collection
Trinity Centre for the Environment
Fingal County Council Municipal Art Collection
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Strange lands still bear common ground, TULCA, Galway, IE
2025 Imprints & Breadcrums, Odapark Centre for Contemporary Art, Venray, NL
2024 Strata, CCA Derry-Londonderry, NI
2023 Hammerheads, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, IE
2022 (Ongoing) The Wave, Collecteurs: The Museum of Private Collections
2022 Plussing, Kunstenplatform WARP, Sint-Niklaas, BE
2022 Material Stories, Galerie Michaela Stock, Vienna, AT
2021 Woman in the Machine: From the Arts Council Collection, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art
2021 Landscape Ecology Environment, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, IE
2019 A Vague Anxiety, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE
2019 Disruptors, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, IE
2018 Periodical Review # 8, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, IE.
2018 Resort Revelations III, Lynders’ Mobile Home Park, Fingal Arts Office, IE
2018 Two Pieces Missing, SIḾ Gallery, Reykjavik, IS
2017 The Inaugural International Autonomous Biennale, Research Pavilion, Venice, IT
2015 Instincts, Santa Monica Studios, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Eígse, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art
2015 /Glitch, Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, IE
2014 Periodical Review # 4, Ormston House Limerick, IE
2014 COE ’14, Claremorris. Curated by Michelle Cotton, IE
2014 Stone Soup, The Sailor’s Home, Limerick, IE
2013 A Subtle Matter, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, NI
2013 Origins, Lismore Castle Arts, IE
2013 The Producers, South Circular Road Community Garden, Dublin, IE
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Public Sculpture
2024 Guiding Light / Solas Treorach, permanent Percent for Art commission, Ardgillan Community College, Balbriggan, IE
2023 Swim in the landscape, walk on the sea, permanent public sculpture, Skerries Art Trail, Fingal Arts Office
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Education
2016 MA Art in the Contemporary World (first class hons.). National College of Art & Design, IE
2013 BA Fine Art (first class hons.). Dublin Institute of Technology, IE
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Selected Residencies
2024- (Ongoing) Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin. Three Year Membership (2024-27)
2024 AtelierWG, Amsterdam, NL
2024 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship Programme, Co. Mayo, IE
2023 SEA Foundation, Tilburg, NL
2023 Research Associate, CCA Derry-Londonderry, NI (2023-25)
2023 Dublin City Council Residential Spaces, Albert Cottages, Dublin, IE
2020 Trinity Centre for the Environment, Trinity College Dublin, IE (2020-22)
2018 Fire Station Artists’ Studios Residential Award, Dublin, IE (2018-22)
2018 SIḾ Residency, Reykjavik, IS
2018 RESORT Residency, Portrane, Fingal County Council, IE
2014 Stone Soup, The Sailor’s Home, Limerick, IE
2013 Basic Space Press: Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE
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Awards & Grants
2025 Emergence Visual Art Award, Wexford County Council Arts Department and Wexford Arts Centre
2025 Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland, IE
2025 Regular Grant Scheme, Culture Ireland, IE
2025 Research Supports Programme, Project Arts Centre
2024 Visual Arts Project Award 2025 (Strand 3), Arts Council of Ireland, IE
2024 Regular Grant Scheme, Culture Ireland, IE
2024 Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland, IE
2024 Project Studio Award, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, IE
2024 Visual Arts Project Award (Strand 1), Arts Council of Ireland, IE
2023 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland. IE
2022 Visual Arts Project Award (Strand 2), Arts Council of Ireland, IE
2022 Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland, IE
2021 Platform 31 Bursary Award, Kildare County Council, IE
2021 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland, IE
2021 Visual Arts Project Award (Strand 1), Arts Council of Ireland, IE
2020 Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council Ireland of Ireland
2020 Print Award, Dublin City Council and Graphic Studios, IE
2018 Travel and Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland, IE
2017 Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council of Ireland, IE
2015 Sculpture Award & Bursary, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin, IE
2014 Graduate Award and Bursary, RUA RED South Dublin Arts Centre, IE
2014 Visual Culture Postgraduate Scholarship, full tuition, National College of Art & Design, IE
2013 Gold Medal, Academic Excellence Award, Dublin Institute of Technology, IE
2013 Best Undergraduate Thesis Award, sponsored by Gandon Editions
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Selected Writings
2025 PILLARS: A Vertical Lexicon, commissioned text for Imprints & Breadcrumbs catalogue, CCA Odapark, NL
2023 Glossaries for Forwardness, publication to accompany solo exhibition, with texts by Dr. Quentin Crowley, Marie Farrington and Anneka French, Trinity College Dublin, IE
2019 Surface Tension, commissioned text as part of A Vague Anxiety Catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IE
2017 Review of ‘only connect’ by Ali Kirby and Christopher Mahon at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Circa Art Magazine
2013 Restating Location, Basic Space Press, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IE
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A Theory of Creative Zigzagging, Declan Long, ArtReview
Diagonal Acts, Visual Artists’ News Sheet
Green volcanic sand to be used to build access ramp, Eoin Mac Raghnaill, Irish Independent
Diagonal Acts, Mousse Magazine
Kunstverein Aughrim 2025 Programme Announcement,e-flux
In Focus: Field Work, Visual Artists’ News Sheet
Studio encounter with Marie Farrington, Michaela Davidova, SEA Foundation Tilburg
The Wave in Retrospect, Collecteurs
Going Deeper into A Vague Anxiety, District Magazine
Review: A Vague Anxiety, Kathryn O’Regan, Sleek Magazine
A Vague Anxiety, Sean Kissane, IMMA Magazine
Artdesk: Causes for Concern: A Vague Anxiety at IMMA, Jack O’Higgins, Totally Dublin
Review:Fore, fold, Laura Woulfe, Headstuff
Pallas Periodical Review: a lively look at the state of Irish contemporary visual art, Aidan Dunne, Irish Times
A Look at Catalyst Arts (including A Subtle Matter), BBC Arts Show
