Mary Whitty

Artist Bio: 

Mary Whitty is a London-born Irish artist living in Wexford. She holds a BA Hons Degree in Contemporary Applied Art from MTU College of Art and Design in 2021, and was awarded the MTU Arts Office STEAM Exhibition Award that same year for responding to “STEM” in insightful and innovative ways. Her art practice uses ceramics, textiles and performance to explore the intersection between dreams, landscapes, folklore and anthropology, seeking to understand how personal and collective stories shape our relationship with the natural world. Whitty recently performed “An Extension of My Fingers” at REMEDY/RESISTANCE, a site-responsive exhibition by Cult Collective of experimental film, performance art, and electronic music for Culture Night in Kilkenny, that took place on the 19th of September 2025.

Artist Statement:

Rooted in questions of ecology and connection, Whitty’s work brings together performance, ceramics and textiles to create dialogues between dreams, bodily movement and the plant world. These dialogues extend into ceramics and textiles, where process and repetition become a form of self-discovery and an abstract survey of the land.

Whitty’s background in permaculture deeply informs her chosen materials and themes, with the combination of ceramics, textiles and performance allowing her to dissect the structures and interdependence of living ecosystems by creating dreamlike compositions that share unearthed movements and connections found in plant and fungi kingdoms. 

In bringing performance, sculpture and process together, connection is made, where material, maker, landscape and folklore coexist. The work becomes intuitive observations on personal and shared experiences of the living world and dream world, an invitation to slow down and sense our own place within its intricate web.

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