Fiona Brehony is a Manchester based artist and writer, working within spaces between Geography, documentary film, sound art and performance.

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

Since October 2023, Fiona has 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. Her research aims to identify ways in which community connections to the River Irk in Manchester 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.

Fiona is currently in the process of engaging in river histories, exploring moments in Manchester’s history and sites of the River Irk through returned visits to the river and its evolving surroundings, documenting through sound and other creative methodologies. If you’re interested in hearing more, please contact Fiona Via the contact information on her website