I am a visual artist working primarily in sculpture. My practice reflects on the act of making through geological and archaeological lenses, alluding to the studio as a geological site bound to processes of accumulation, accrual, removal and erasure. Through site-responsive and often collaborative methodologies, I engage in temporal exchanges and situated encounters with landscape. I employ casting and other spatial processes to construct material archives that capture residual aspects of sites. My work traces overlaps between site and memory, making formal reference to field sampling practices, vernacular architectures and histories of display. This frames an ongoing attempt to navigate the boundaries of the body in the landscape.
I often present staged arrangements whose forms are contingent on the site of their display. Dust, sand, wax, glass, anthracite, volcanic matter, plaster, ink and muslin converge in installations that function as testing grounds for agency and exchange, evoking a spectral presence through unfixed or provisional elements. While existing within a concept of sculpture, many of my installations present flat pictorial planes, and reflect on the conditions of their own imagehood. They act as semi-photographic indexes of the material world. Underpinned by a consideration of surface as a point of intense contact between the history and future of an object, my practice pursues a sense of continuous entanglement among materials and their emerging correlations. I describe the resulting works as ‘relics in reverse.’
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Marie Farrington (b. 1990, Ireland) lives and works in Dublin. Marie Farrington (b. 1990, Co. Kildare) is an artist and writer based in Dublin. Her work is held in the collections of the Arts Council, Trinity Centre for the Environment, and the OPW Irish State Art Collection. Forthcoming exhibitions include puntWG, Amsterdam (solo, 2024), CCA Derry-Londonderry (2024), Kunstverein Aughrim (solo, 2025) and Odapark CCA, Venray (2025). She is a Project Studio awardee at Temple Bar Gallery+Studios, Dublin (2024-25).
Contact: studio@mariefarrington.com
