Marilyn Lennon is an artist and educator. Her practice is both collaborative and interdisciplinary in nature and is situated within an ongoing critical investigation around the contested questions of ownership, autonomy, privatisation, agency or control in public space and place. For almost three years she has been working in collaboration with the Knockatallon Ramblers hiking club (Co. Monaghan, Ireland). Together they have been exploring the potential of critical cartography and the act of walking and mapping the border of Ireland and Northern Ireland, to address spatial contestation, and to offer alternative intimate narratives of place. This work was motivated by reading whilst walking 'The Camino', its history revealed shifts and changing narratives of place over time. The observation that these shifts or transformed narratives were determined, in part, through the act of the contemplative walk has influenced her work. www.marilynlennon.net
