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 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. Fiona often works collaboratively across disciplines with scientists, composers, historians, and communities, she makes work that is poetic and inquisitive, 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 at the Royal Northern College of Music, and Creswell Crags Museum. In 2026 she takes up residencies with the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Oslo and as Goetemann Environmental Artist in Residence with Ocean Alliance. Her doctoral research centres on the River Irk in North Manchester, tracing the oral histories, material flows, and community connections that bind body, city, and river together. Alongside this, she runs Liquid History – workshops and soundwalks where rivers become living archives.

Contact: fionasineadbrehony@gmail.com

Artist Portrait below by 王淳眉Chun-Mei Wang