Mary Conroy is a cross-disciplinary artist from Ireland. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Ceramics and a master’s degree in Social Practice.

Her practice incorporates sculpture, site-specific installation and community-engaged project work. With a strong emphasis on making, materiality and process, her work investigates relationships between the human and more-than-human world in scientific and cultural contexts. This is often done through collaboration and co-production with communities of place.

Mary is a founding member of the Materials Matter Collective; a collaborative research and education project focusing on material sustainability and environmental awareness within the process of art production.

Recent projects include ‘Shannon Lights’, 2026 (Artist in residence at Limerick Museum, researching the demise of the Limerick Fisheries following the construction of the Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme in 1925), 'Wilderland', 2025 (socially engaged art in Mayo's Wild Nephin National park, working with local communities and park rangers). 'Meltdown', 2023 (permanent bronze public artwork on Fingal coastline), 'A Magic Moving Living Thing' 2020-2026 (socially engaged eco-art project exploring the River Nore), The Feminist Supermarket, Ormston House, Limerick, (2021).  A Magic Moving Living Thing, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (2022), An Urgent Enquiry,  in collaboration with Joanna Hopkins, Fingal, Dublin (2019), and What Are You Made of Folkestone?, Folkestone, UK, (2021), where she represented Ireland with EVA International on the Creative Europe project, Magic Carpets. She was also the selected Irish artist through Ormston House on a team of 6 international artists for the Creative Europe project Memory of Water producing work in Greece, Poland, and Scotland (2018-2020).

Mary has worked as a freelance artist and educator since 2010 and is a lecturer in Limerick School of Art and Design.