artist in residence

Michelle Hickey Legge is a visual artist and maker and balances her art practice between her native Shannon and Doolin in North Clare. She is a Graduate from TUS Limerick School of Art and Design, Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture and Combined Media 2021. She is currently undertaking her MA in Fine Art in LSAD and is Artist in Residence with the Galway Wool Co-op and Wool in School 2023 as part of her MA. Hickey mainly works in abstract form and the subject matter influences the type of medium she uses and the outcome of her work. She finds beauty in repetition and aims to develop a tacit knowledge of materials by working with them intuitively and embracing their tactile qualities.