Mary Conroy

Mary Conroy is a socially engaged artist and educator. She holds an B.Des. in Ceramics and MA in Social Practice. She works full time as a lecturer in Limerick School of Art and Design and as a freelance project worker. Her practiceinvestigates human and non-human ecologies within specific environments through socially-engaged practice, including participation, collaboration and intervention. Materiality and material investigation are an integral part of her work as an artist.

Previous projects include: A Magic Moving Living Thing with the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny investigates the more than human history of the River Nore in Kilkenny, An Urgent Enquiry (2019), a residency programme with investigating climate change and biodiversity on the Fingal Coastline; Materials Matter (2020), the inaugural Art Links Collaboration Award, for a collaborative research and education project investigating sustainability and environmental awareness within the process of art production; In 2018 she was chosen to represent Ireland as one of 6 artists for the Creative EU project The Memory of Water, which saw her producing work in 3 European countries around the theme of river wellbeing and waterfront heritage.