2020
Marilyn is currently enrolled on the Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art Course by Valand Academy at University of Gothenburg in partnership with Public Art Agency Sweden and the University of Arts Helsinki.
An international, distance course, at advanced level, introducing key issues and practices in working with art in the public realm targeted at continuing professional development.
Most recently Marilyn is collaborating with artists Collette Lewis and Elinor Rivers developing a social art project in Cork city, Ireland focussed on future inhabitation of urban land.
She is a member of the Cork Artist Collective since 2017.
Marilyn has longterm experience of creative work with people in context, this was initially gained through working in community art projects as an emerging artist in the 90's and later as a funded 'artist in community'. This experience was used further in her PhD research carried out in an interdisciplinary research centre (Interaction Design Centre) at the University of Limerick.
In 2010 she developed and since then has been co-directing a masters in social art practice - MA Social Practice and the Creative Environment, (MA SPACE) Limerick School of Art and Design. She has also taught at undergraduate and graduate levels at the National College of Art and Design and the University of Limerick.
Education
Her PhD (2007) at the Interaction Design Centre (IDC), an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Limerick under Prof Liam Bannon, explored methodologies derived from Art and Design practice which support and facilitate participants in Participatory Design, Co-Design and Collaborative Design sessions.
She has a Masters of Art from the National College of Art and Design.
