Marilyn Lennon is a visual artist and lecturer. Over the last decade she has worked predominantly through social art practice while also developing and co-directing a masters in social art practice (MA SPACE) at Limerick School of Art and Design.

Her work has been situated in both urban and rural places of contestation, where outcomes are co-developed and co-created actions, situations, sites of exchange, artefacts and documentation. For example her social art project, SpiritStore, saw a collaboration of players, negotiate, occupy and community manage an empty public house (Sarsfield Bar, Limerick) as a city centre social space during the Irish economic crash. Or the five year project, WayMarkers, instigated in the years just before the UK Brexit vote, which engaged in counter-mapping, evolved from the embodied knowledge of place that ramblers hold, giving them a particular perspective of the border between rural Co. Monaghan and the adjoining counties in Northern Ireland.

Her art practice is particularly focussed on the social production of space as resistance and the creative development of new territorialities as contestation. Creative processes invite collective actions of resistance, organising, experiencing and of materialisation. The co-created and extended processes often question and contest established or institutionalised norms.