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Mary Furlong is a visual artist working with photography, video, and text, to process, understand and communicate her lived experience. Her work has been exhibited internationally, won the Solstice Visual Arts Award, and is in private and public collections.

To refocus on her practice Mary returned to education in 2019, completing a Photography Degree at Technological University Dublin and MFA Photography at Ulster University. Since then she has made work examining Ireland’s relationship with nuclear power What Fin told me (2020); searched for traces of her dead father Flock (2020); questioned memories Not the location of my first kiss (2021); studied menopause One day (2021); and responded to loss The apple I would never eat (2022 ongoing).

Not the location of my first kiss was featured in the Summer 2022 issue of The Irish Arts Review. One day was published as part of TLP Editions 2024. The apple I would never eat has been widely exhibited, shortlisted for the PP/S Artist-Initiated-Programme 2024, and awarded a Meath County Council Professional Artist Development Fund 2025. Mary was shortlisted for the EMERGENCE Visual Art Award 2023 and the Irish Hospice Foundation Seed Grants for Arts in Residential Care 2024.