Fiona Brehony

I am an artist-researcher whose practice explores the relationship between Cultural Heritage, memory, and visual and written narrative. Previous works have utilised specialist expertise, often involving collaboration with scientists and composers, to create lyrical and inquisitive connections between people and their environment. My research takes the form of creative documentary and audio-visual installations that are exhibited in galleries, museums and other public spaces.

My doctoral project - supervised by Professor George Revill, Dr Carry Van-Lieshout, and Dr Jenny Baines - engages in possibilities of rivers as Cultural Heritage; I will be collecting sounds, images and text and exploring relationships to rivers, past and present. I will be working remotely on this research in Manchester, engaging local communities in creative workshops with archive materials; exploring ecological and social histories of the River Irk.

In 2021, I completed an MA (with Distinction) in Photography at MSoA. My personal values as a practitioner are entrenched with humanistic approaches to discovering ways of making environments more equitable. I am passionate about exploring ways lived experiences can be filled with light and playfulness – this is the way I approach all my work.