Fiona Sinéad Brehony is a Manchester-based artist and writer working across moving image, sound, and performance. Her practice moves between the geological and the intimate – attending to the layered histories, submerged stories, and living ecologies that shape how places are experienced, remembered, and reimagined.

Drawn to rivers, skyscapes, and sites of displacement, her work unfolds through attentive, care-led inquiry – listening closely to what landscapes carry and to the multiple voices, human and more-than-human, that inhabit them. Collaboration is central: working across disciplines with scientists, composers, historians, and communities, she makes work that is research-led and poetic, alive to the constraints places hold and the histories that might be liberated from them.

Her commissions include work for the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Oxford, PRISM, and Creswell Crags Museum. In 2026 she takes up residencies with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Oslo, and Ocean Alliance as Goetemann Environmental Artist in Residence 2026. Her current doctoral research centres on the River Irk in North Manchester, tracing how body, city, and river inherit and hold heritage together.