Mariette Feeney is an artist and designer currently living and working in Dublin. They moved from the UK to Ireland in 2013 to live and study and graduated from TUD with a degree in Furniture Design, which informs much of their work.
Mariette’s work explores and challenges the concept of Utopia and uses scultpure to ask questions and provoke conversations about the world we want to live in: what do we take pleasure in, what are we proud of, and what is important to us? They aim to centre the personal, small, and often overlooked pleasures of everyday life in answer to these larger questions, and through their sculpture they try to give physical form to the idea that in order to do good work in the world, we must all have a place of retreat and peace.
Mariette is the recipient of We Only Want the Earths’ first residency award of 2021.
always coming home: building blocks for utopia
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2019
Intended for the display of precious, special belongings, these sculptural furniture pieces aimed to provoke a response to the question “what is important?” by encouraging the viewer to start small, to think about treasured items, and beyond that to think about the way they curate their own space, what they choose to keep around them and what they choose to keep out of sight.
