Marianne Connolly is an artist and writer living in western Massachusetts. Her visual work involves collage, photography and installation art. She also writes speculative fiction stories about magic, urban dragons and disco. She explores storytelling, narrative, and the connections between language and image in her collage and mixed-media work.
Most of her collages originate with a story. Some of the older works play with stories from secular and sacred literature like Ophelia, Hathor, Inanna, or Mary Magdalene. Many of them are brides caught in a surrealistic snapshot, all of them at a threshold moment of change. The more recent works originate in the artist’s own writing. The "Little Lu” series uses the artistic parameters of a fictional character, employing primarily monochrome materials, manual cut-and-paste, incorporating “mistakes,” and pre-1985 materials. "Rapunzel’s Diary (Revised)" is a mixed-media work pairing an iconic Olivetti Valentine typewriter with a 20-foot scroll of typed narrative.
Most of her collages originate with a story. Some of the older works play with stories from secular and sacred literature like Ophelia, Hathor, Inanna, or Mary Magdalene. Many of them are brides caught in a surrealistic snapshot, all of them at a threshold moment of change. The more recent works originate in the artist’s own writing. The "Little Lu” series uses the artistic parameters of a fictional character, employing primarily monochrome materials, manual cut-and-paste, incorporating “mistakes,” and pre-1985 materials. "Rapunzel’s Diary (Revised)" is a mixed-media work pairing an iconic Olivetti Valentine typewriter with a 20-foot scroll of typed narrative.