Lilymay Healy is an artist from Galway on the West Coast of Ireland. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematical Science from the University of Galway in 2023 and a Graduate Diploma of Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art in 2025.

Healy works with textile, metal, drawing, painting, print, collected objects and writing. She creates mythopoetical vision machines in which moments of alignment, ruptures of vision and wave phenomena manifest new ways of seeing. Consisting of interactions between light sources, optical devices and textiles, her installations consider scientific imaging and the visualisation of the ephemeral, the imperceptible, the abstract, the infinitesimal and the unknown. She is interested in the slippage between states; landscape and sea, visible and invisible, particle and wave. By employing theatrical aesthetics she creates illusions as well as revealing their mechanisms.

Her work sits between the ornamental and illustrative, the speculative and experimental, the experiential and art as object. Through material decisions and craft techniques such as embroidery and appliqué, feminine labour and aesthetics sit in relation to a broader enquiry into performativity and identity construction. Through abstraction or the duplication of images, Healy investigates light as a conceptual framework for knowledge to project across the gaps between personal experience, natural phenomena, optical perception, scientific knowledge and artistic expression.

She is always looking for the glint.