I am a Manchester based artist and writer, working within spaces between Geography, documentary film, sound art and performance.

My personal values as a practitioner are entrenched with humanistic approaches to discovering ways of making environments more equitable. I am passionate about life and in exploring ways lived experiences can be filled with light and playfulness. This is the way I approaches all work.

Since October 2023, I have been working on an AHRC funded research project that engages in possibilities of rivers as Cultural Heritage, with a particular focus on rivers in areas of regeneration. My research aims to identify ways in which community connections to rivers can be used to inform how people interact with the space around them. By identifying potential constraints of the city through creative public engagement, we can look at possible ways to liberate the past and present histories of spaces we inhabit.

I am currently in the process of engaging in river histories, exploring moments in Manchester’s history and river sites through returned visits to the river and its evolving surroundings, documenting through sound and other creative methodologies.

I write and perform spoken word as part of jazz quartet ‘Loose Time’. My live work combines experimental language and performance to explore beauty found in isolation of place. I have performed live at numerous events including 24/7 theatre festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Manchester Pride, Sounds from the Other City, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Poetry Café, and Second City Chicago.⁣

For queries:

fionasineadbrehony@gmail.com