Challenging the way audiences view and interact with the photographic image has prompted Mary Farmilant to create an integral experience where the viewer blends with the photograph. They develop a reciprocal relationship where the viewer changes through the impact made by the object; the object changes, too.   

Auditory, visual, olfactory, and kinesthetic stimuli in her work generates an impalpable emotional experience. In her photographic series, Natura Consonat, the installation responds to the audience: silk panels sway in the breeze created by human movement. Her work engages on a personal level, placing the audience inside the art so they become part of it.  

Farmilant has exhibited in Galería de Arte Buenos Aires Sur, Toronto Contact Photo Festival; International Museum of Surgical Science, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Indianapolis Art Center, Festival of Light, Cardiff, Wales, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, and Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.  Awards include the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award in Photography, the Follett Fellowship and Puffin Grant. 

She received her nursing degree at University of Brighton, Sussex, England and worked in neurosurgery before turning to photography full-time.