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Marie Hanlon
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Portrait of Marie Hanlon
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| Born | 20 December 1948 Goresbridge, County Kilkenny, Ireland
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| Nationality | Irish |
| Education | University College Dublin, National College of Art and Design |
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Notable work
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It’s all About Books (2019), DIC TAT (2014), Everything we see… (2014) |
Marie Hanlon is an Irish artist from Dublin. She creates art using many different things like painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and installations. She often works with Irish music makers, especially Rhona Clarke. Together, they make art that can be shown in art galleries or performed like a concert.
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Marie Hanlon's Early Life and School
Marie Hanlon grew up in Goresbridge, County Kilkenny. She went to school there with the Brigidine Sisters. Later, she studied at University College Dublin and finished in 1977. She earned a degree in English and the history of European painting.
In 2018, she got another degree, an MA, from The National College of Art & Design in Dublin. In 2015, Marie Hanlon became a member of Aosdána. This is a special group in Ireland that celebrates artists who have made a big and lasting impact on the arts.
How Marie Hanlon Creates Art
In 1988, Marie Hanlon joined a group called the Women Artists Action Group (WAAG). She showed her art with them in their only Irish exhibition, Art Beyond Barriers, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1989.
Marie Hanlon had her first solo art show in 1993 at the Temple Bar Gallery. By this time, her art started to show a special style. It was both geometric (using shapes) and lyrical (like a song). Her artworks often have simple parts that are carefully balanced. They are known for being subtle in how they use colors, textures, and how everything is put together.
One art critic said that her works are "structurally contained yet emotionally expansive." This means her art might look very organized, but it can make you feel many different emotions.
Art and Music: Marie Hanlon's Collaborations
Marie Hanlon's art often feels like music. This led her to try new things and work with others. In 2014, she had two important exhibitions where she worked with several Irish music composers.
The show Everything we see… at Solstice Arts Centre (2014) included artworks made with composers like Grainne Mulvey, Jane O’ Leary, Rhona Clarke, and Emma O’Halloran. This exhibition filled three galleries. In the main hall, there was an installation of 38 drawings that showed how music and lines in art are connected.
Another show, DIC TAT, at Draíocht Centre for the Arts (2014), was a two-person exhibition with Marie Hanlon and composer Rhona Clarke. For this show, they used a metronome (a device that keeps time in music) to create both sounds and visuals. A video showed drawings that were "dictated" by different metronome beats.
Marie Hanlon also creates videos for live performances. For example, she made the video for Behind closed Doors (2016). This piece was performed by Richard O’Donnell and The Royal Irish Academy Percussion Ensemble in Colombia. Rhona Clarke wrote the music, and Marie Hanlon made the video.
In 2019, accordion player Dermot Dunne played live music while a video called The Small Hours (2019) was shown in Hong Kong. Again, Rhona Clarke created the music, and Marie Hanlon made the video.
In 2019, Marie Hanlon had an exhibition called It’s All About Books at The Cregan Library at Dublin City University. In this show, she explored books as art objects. An art critic, Aidan Dunne, wrote that even when her art is playful, it can make you think about things disappearing or losing their meaning.
The exhibition It's All About Books helps people think about "What kind of seeing occurs when we read?" It shows how Marie Hanlon continues to explore the "complexities of seeing" in her art.
Marie Hanlon's Home
Marie Hanlon lives in Sutton, which is on the Howth peninsula on the northside of Dublin.
