Marie Noonan
This installation of found and sculptural works in epoxy resin and Jesmonite confronts the enduring nature of corruption, from the shadowy networks of the powerful elite to the visible structures and nefarious bodies governing our everyday lives.
To understand why power corrupts, I create space where uncomfortable truths can be examined openly. My aim is to explore what holds us together as a society and to bring deeper truths to the surface, allow open communication, and encourage it. Among these works, Sophia's Light stands as a sparkling counterpoint — an ancient feminine wisdom that holds hope within the weight of its surroundings.
A suspended figure, shrouded in translucent epoxy resin, hovers above a floor-bound structure of mosquito netting and a clear resin bodice. Veiled yet exposed, entombed yet present, the silenced female form gazes downward upon a concealed mixed-media painting and redacted informational sculptures- hidden figures rendered across millennia, buried beneath the surface of the work itself.
Euripides wrote Hecuba in 424 BC. Hecuba was a woman stripped of everything -status, children, homeland. Her grief and powerlessness distilled into something fierce and irreversible. That story has never left us. The structures that silence, conceal, and contain the female form are not relics of the ancient world; they are the architectures we still inhabit, the materials we still reach for.
This work holds that tension without resolving it. The resin preserves and imprisons. The netting shelters and ensnares. What is hidden is not gone - it presses upward through the layers, demanding to be felt if not seen. The rage of Hecuba is not ancient history. It is alive and present, and it looks like this.
A sculpted cushion — cast in foam and Jesmonite, its surface pearl-like and still — supports a small transparent cube at its crown. Together, they embody Sophia: an ancient personification of divine wisdom, understood as the feminine aspect in nature. Sophia reminds us that within each person, two forces coexist — the reasoning mind and the feeling heart. In the context of this installation, Sophia's Light holds a different kind of space: not apart from the tensions of the other works, but present within them. In the context of this installation, Sophia's Light holds a quiet space among the other works — a presence of wisdom and hope.
Marie Noonan is a neurodivergent, Dublin-based artist working across installation, sculpture, and mixed media. Using found materials, light, sound and resin, she constructs immersive environments that emerge from a deep practice of meditation and embodied movement. Rather than imposing intent, Marie allows the work to arise organically -waiting for the spark, then following it.
Marie has exhibited in **ARTLOT**, Electric Picnic (2025),**Mud Between the Toes**, Pallas Projects/Studios (2025),**How We See**, DIVA (2023) and **The Place Project**, IMMA Studios (2022).
