In June 2026, Fiona Brehony takes up a three-month artist residency with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), supported by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. Working across Oslo and Trondheim, the residency places her within one of Scandinavia’s leading environmental research institutions – an organisation that bridges ecological science, social research, and public engagement.

The residency offers a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of art, ecology, and environmental justice. In Oslo, Brehony will work alongside Dr Helene Figari, whose research explores access, quality, and fairness in urban green and blue spaces – questions that resonate directly with her own practice around rivers, communities, and the politics of the natural environment. In Trondheim, she will join Dr Rose Keller in soundscape fieldwork, measuring and mapping how natural and human-made sounds shape experiences of place, quiet, and ecological value.

Across both strands, Brehony will develop a creative research archive – field recordings, photography, interviews, and written reflections – that will form the foundation for a future sound and moving image installation. The residency extends her ongoing inquiry into how creative practice can translate ecological research for wider publics, and how listening, in its fullest sense, might open new ways of understanding our relationship to the natural world.