Ann Maria Healy

My work is concerned with methods of healing and the practice of holding opposing ideas within the same space. Expressing itself through moving image, sculptural and textual form, it thinks through recurrence, dream states and narratives embedded within the human psyche. It looks toward the tools we employ to both overcome and submerge these narratives. I am interested in the embodied meaning of material and attempt to unpack and subvert it, often playing with notions of taste as a way to speak toward a socio-political sphere. Sometimes acting in an absurd manner, the work employs spirituality as a device to reconsider our present moment. The stories that I tell are usually fragmented in nature and look for potential spaces where healing might occur. I am interested in the narratives that we tell, about ourselves and our world as a way to excavate and transform our lived experience.

Selected exhibitions include Portals, Luan Gallery, 2023, Hypnagogia, The Lab Gallery, 2021, Desire – A Revision, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2020. Previous residencies include Fire Station Artist Studios Dublin, 2017 – 2020, Cow House Studios, Wexford, 2015 and The Banff Centre, Canada, 2014. I am an MFA graduate of The Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and a recipient of the Irish Arts Council, Visual Artist Bursary Award. My work is part of the Irish Arts Council Collection and I have held a project studio at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios. I am currently a member of Richmond Road Studios and a part time lecturer at the National College of Art and Design