Michelle Malone

Michelle Malone’s practice is based on her experience growing up in a variety of social housing systems in inner-city Dublin, mainly Oliver Bond flats. Her multi-disciplinary installations comprise sculpture, image making, oral histories, audio, and text. Her practice seeks to give material voice to working-class histories from the perspective of lived experience. It is her belief that it is much needed in the art industry to let marginalised people tell their own stories. She believes that all materials are biased and that objects have a collectively known cultural value. It is her intention to instrumentalise the shared meaning of materials and objects to visually tell working-class histories and to create embodied empathy/ identity for the subject matter. She is interested in creating affected meaning of working-class materials and objects.

Solo exhibitions include O, to Have a Little House (2022) at The LAB Gallery; Great Uncle Joe (2021) at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios; Poor Auld Anna Livia (Studio 1) at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, and Summer Project 1997 at The Complex. Selected group exhibitions include, Staying with the Trouble (2025) at IMMA; Installation and set design for Frank Sweeney’s A Few Can See (2023) at EVA International, Following Threads (2023–2024) at Crawford Art Gallery, The Golden Fleece: 21 Years, An Exhibition (2021) at Solstice Arts Centre.