Marie Hanlon is a Dublin-based Irish artist working in a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, video and installation.

Hanlon received her early education from the Brigidine Sisters, Goresbridge, County Kilkenny and later graduated from University College, Dublin (1977) with a BA in English and History of European Painting.

The show occupied all three of Solstice’s upper galleries and in the foyer, an installation of thirty-eight drawings further explored links between music and line.

‘The narrow margin of space for deliberation remains confined to the intervals between beats.’ Rowan Sexton[8] A further development of Hanlon’s collaborative practice is a video for live performance; Richard O’Donnell and The Royal Irish Academy Percussion Ensemble commissioned Behind closed Doors (2016) for the Tambourimba Percussion Festival, Cali, Colombia; music by Rhona Clarke, video Marie Hanlon.

In 2019 accordionist Dermot Dunne played live to a screening of The Small Hours (2019) Shatin Town Hall, Hong Kong, music Rhona Clarke, video Marie Hanlon.