Marianne Agren-McElroy

Marianne Ågren McElroy (1900–2006) was a sculptor and poet. She was born in Lidingö in Sweden and travelled to Ireland in 1950. She studied at the National College of Art. She had two daughters, artist Kristina and Ingrid. Her husband was metal worker Paddy McElroy, whom she met at the Dublin School of Art. She had her own ceramic studio in Churchtown, Dublin, from 1965.

Biography Ågren McElroy was born in 1900 and she came to Ireland in 1958, not planning to stay longer than 12 months.

Career She was a member of The Project Gallery (committee member), The Independent Artists, The Irish Society for Design and Craftwork, and the Irish Section of the World Craft Council.

Though a prolific artist who exhibited in Dublin throughout the 1960s and ’70s, Ågren-McElroy had faded into obscurity by the ’80s.