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- Michaela Greaney
Michaela
Greaney
How the surface wavers
Michaela Greaney is a multi-media visual artist working primarily in 2666 and sculpture. Her
current practice investigates the layered histories of place, focusing on the transformation of the
Limerick Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry into the Limerick School of Art and Design. Through
site-specific work, she explores how the past persists within the present, using fragmented
symbolism to illustrate the paradox of two realities coexisting in a single space.
By viewing the building as a hauntological element, interplaying between realities, objects, and
temporality, absence becomes a form of memory. Her materials, chosen for their malleability,
reflect the fragility of history and lived experience. Techniques such as building up, breaking
down, staining, and layering allow her to submerge her work in the materiality of change, evoking
themes of loss, transformation, and the passage of time.