Horrigan, Michele

Michele Horrigan is an Irish artist and curator whose practice revolves around the legacies and potentials of

environment and site. She employs video and photography in an investigative manner to research and represent

hidden or overlooked narratives, creating new forms of knowledge in the process. Horrigan has considered the

role of bauxite refining and its environmental consequences in her ongoing Stigma Damages, while other

projects such as Where Does The Law Stand With Leprechauns? probe how mythology and Hollywood movies

have created surprising real-life narratives both in Ireland and the United States.

She is curator and founder of Askeaton Contemporary Arts, commissioning, producing, and exhibiting

contemporary art in the locale of a small town in west Limerick since 2006. She is also co-founder and co-editor

of ACA Public, an independent publishing initiative.