FIONA REILLY
Fiona is a multidisciplinary artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2014 with a first class hons. Masters Degree in Social Practice and the Creative Environment. She also holds a BA hons degree in Fine Art from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Fiona has exhibited throughout Ireland and abroad and is the recipient of numerous awards, most recently the Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Art Award 2016. Her practice now straddles the fields of Fine Art and Socially Engaged Practice. This includes an ongoing investigation of their relationship with each other. She works using a combination of performative and event based actions and the production of objects. Site, context and circumstance are of fundamental importance and works often emerge in response to personal and social situations. Play, experimentation and repetition are tools she regularly employs.