Michelle Boyle is an artist and occasional curator with a rural studio base beside Lough Ramor in Cavan, Ireland and a developing base in Mumbai India. Identity, journeying and lived experience are central to the artist’s practice, described as “sensitive, powerful and poetic”. She commits to deep observation of people and place expressed in a cross disciplinary practice which includes painting, drawing, video, installation and paper casting.

Michelle was born in London and adopted as a child to Dublin, growing up in the developing suburbia of Ballymun with her adopted sisters. In the long personal journeying to access her birth family history and geography in Ireland and India, she connects into a universal narrative on the meaning of home as a physical and internalised place of belonging. She has four children and has worked as a professional artist for 20 years balancing the commitments of family with her professional art practice. The challenges of being present to herself and visible as a contemporary female artist in a rural location is reflected in her ongoing self portraits. Some examples of these autobiographical works from past solo shows can be viewed in the Gallery Archive.

Over the past five years Michelle has been swimming in Lough Ramor, beside her studio in Ireland. The shock of cold and total immersion in nature has encouraged a freedom to creatively experiment with new materials and collaborators for her developing project ‘Kala Pani- Blackwater’ in Ireland and India.

MA Landscape Archaeology / Architecture & BA Cultural Anthropology

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