Michelle Boyle has her studio in the lake-filled landscape of Cavan with a developing base in India where her birth father was from. She works in painting and drawing, more recently using video, installation and the written word as part of her creative practice. Michelle works out in the landscape and swims year-round in her local Lough Ramor. This immersive experience leads her to consider the living agency of fresh water and to ask ‘What water would say if it could speak to us?’ She explores this from the intersection of art and the geohumanities informed by her academic background in Cultural Anthropology (BA) and Landscape Archaeology (MA). Recent presentations include ‘Exquisite River’ Ely Center of Contemporary Art, USA, ‘Freshwater’ solo exhibition Ramor Theatre, ‘Conversations from the fountain’ Earth Rising IMMA. She researches and has written on the ceremony and material culture of water veneration including well worship and the embodied cross cultural practice of water divination.
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