Dr Marielle Hehir is an artist and researcher based in Manchester. She recently completed a practice-led PhD at the University of Leeds with full funding from the White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH). Prior to this she was awarded an MA from the Slade School of Fine Art and a BA (Hons) from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Marielle has exhibited widely and taken part in several international artist residency programmes. Recent exhibitions include: On Shaky Ground: Land, Paint and Change, 2023, Space at Design Gallery, Leeds; Genius Loci: Painting the Spirit of Place, 2022, APT gallery, London. In 2017 she was shortlisted for The John Ruskin Prize Exhibition and in 2016 she was shortlisted for Contemporary British Painting Prize.
