Home Participants 25th Biennale of Sydney (2026) Marianne Keating
Marianne Keating
Marianne Keating
Born:
Ireland
Lives in:
London, United Kingdom
Marianne Keating is an Irish artist and researcher based in London. Her practice-based research explores Irish history, particularly the complex legacies of colonialism, migration and empire and the often-overlooked experiences of the Irish diaspora, especially in Jamaica. Through visual, material and oral traces, and supported by intensive on-site investigation, she reconstructs and reimagines these fragmented histories. By accumulating these disregarded and overlooked traces, she seeks to reinsert previously muted or silenced voices into the archive, giving them renewed presence through her practice-based work as an artist-researcher. Her multidisciplinary approach integrates multi-screen film installations within a broader framework of archival research and material exploration, utilising large-scale prints, textiles, photography, text, sculpture and sound-based installations. Through the interplay of these elements, Keating constructs multilayered and immersive environments to critically engage with questions of history, memory and representation, situating her work within ongoing discourses on post/neo-colonial identity and diaspora.