Lilymay Healy is an artist from the West 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. She is currently pursuing an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art.

Lilymay makes work across a variety of media including textile, painting, print, collected objects, writing and installation. Her installations consist of interactions between light sources, optical devices and textiles to create an experience of ambiguity and visual confusion. She is interested primarily in transforming her experience of moments of alignment in nature in order to understand her relationship to the landscape, herself and her perception of reality.

The foundation of her practice is in craft techniques such as embroidery and appliqué. These labour intensive processes of decoration give her work a temporal dimension and imbue objects with significance. Her work sits between both the ornamental and illustrative, both experimental and theatrical, both experience and art object. She often incorporates mathematical and scientific concepts in her work using diagrammatic imagery. Through abstraction or duplication of images she uses light as a conceptual framework for knowledge to explore the distances between natural phenomena, optical perception, scientific knowledge and artistic expression.

She is always looking for the glint.