MAGGIE MEISTER

Resident Artist:

1st to 30th August 2025

  • Maggie’s love of ancient history, color and patterns has followed her throughout her life. For 30 years, she used seed beads, gemstones, focal beads, and a variety of bead weaving techniques to translate designs found in mosaics, frescoes, architecture and jewelry into sculptural bead art to wear.

    Maggie taught bead workshops nationally and internationally throughout Europe during her beading career. Her work has been shown in London, Milan and Naples and was featured in ORNAMENT MAGAZINE, Beadwork Magazine, Bead and Button, and a variety of books. She wrote a book, CLASSICAL ELEGANCE, for Lark Books as part of their Master Beadweaving Series.

    Maggie has retired from teaching beadwork. However, she is in the process of publishing a book from her MASTER CLASS – BEADWORK INSPIRED BY ARCHITECTURE. The book should be ready by the end of 2025.

    Through the years, Maggie has collected many objects for her interests – i.e., cameos, kilim pieces, textiles, and embroidery/goldwork threads to name just a few (you should see her studio). She has become involved in mixed media, sculpture, and mosaics after completing many workshops in embroidery, mosaics, and collage.

    In August 2024, she took a sculpture workshop with the incredible artist Kirsten Stingle in Ireland. Who knew that at the age of 70 she would fall in love with sculpture. Mixed media has become a way for her to express herself using pieces from her collections and studying embroidery, mosaics, and sculpture.

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New Artistic Journey

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We were delighted to welcome Maggie Meister as our Artist in Residence at Mulranny Arts. With a background rooted in historical textiles and a passion for storytelling through materials, Maggie is entering an exciting new phase in her artistic journey.

During her residency, she explored the fusion of needle felting, textiles, and 3D sculpting using a variety of materials, alongside a growing interest in encaustic techniques. Her work draws deep inspiration from landscapes, mythology, and found objects collected on walks, which she incorporates into mixed media sculptures, vessels, and photo-based textile pieces.

Maggie’s time at Mulranny Arts marked a continuation of her recent creative explorations and provided a space to respond intuitively to the environment, allowing the West of Ireland landscape to shape her evolving practice.

We are delighted to share that Maggie will return in August 2026 for a second residency with us—watch this space for more details.