MARIE FARRINGTON
![Marie Farrington, '[x] Placements (pressed)', The Unseen Eyebeam Crossed, puntWG, Amsterdam, 2024. Photo Ilya Rabinovich and Rein Kooyman](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8dac62ae9e7377eaba43eaca3911eb05a9b369ad0b62ce4a125fc8e03898ed6f/puntwg1.jpeg)
Through material interventions and participatory gestures, Farrington will realise Diagonal Acts, a new multi-platform project supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. Beginning at the entrance of Kunstverein Aughrim in Spring 2025, the project continues with public workshops at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, and culminates in exhibitions at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, and Commonage Projects, London. Thinking across and between sites through conditional modes of encounter, Diagonal Acts explores diagonality as a relational and collaborative stance, temporarily ‘leaning’ against contexts, communities and histories.
Marie Farrington is an artist whose practice reflects on the act of making through geological and archaeological lenses. Using casting, carving and other sculptural processes, she engages with memory through situated encounters with landscape and architecture. Her work makes formal reference to field sampling, built heritage and histories of display. Exhibitions include Imprints & Breadcrumbs, CCA Odapark, Venray, 2025 (forthcoming); Strata, CCA Derry-Londonderry, 2024; The Unseen Eyebeam Crossed, puntWG Amsterdam, 2024; Glossaries for Forwardness, Museum Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2023; Hammerheads, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, Co. Meath, 2023; FAULTS+FOLDS, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin 2022; The Wave, Collecteurs: The Museum of Private Collections, (online), 2022; and A Vague Anxiety, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2019. She recently delivered two permanent public commissions: Guiding Light, a Percent for Art Commission at Ardgillan Community College, Balbriggan in 2024 and Swim in the landscape, walk on the sea, a public commission for Skerries Art Trail, Dublin coast in 2023. Farrington holds a Three Year Membership at Temple Bar Gallery+Studios, Dublin. She is a part-time lecturer at the National College of Art and Design. She has held residencies at Atelier WG, Amsterdam in 2024; SEA Foundation, Tilburg, 2023; Dublin City Council’s Residential Studios, Albert Cottages, 2023; Fire Station Artists’ Studios, 2018-2022. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The Arts Council of Ireland; The Centre for the Environment, Trinity College Dublin; and the Office of Public Works.
https://www.mariefarrington.com/
Kunstverein Aughrim’s collaboration with Marie Farrington is supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and by Wicklow County Arts Office through the annual Strategic Project Award Scheme.