Sinéad O’Neill-Nicholl has a research based practice and works predominantly with sound and light to create installation and performance art. With a focus on manipulating sound recordings using mixing skills and audio editing software techniques, Sinéad examines language in the context of justice and investigates the connection between communication channels and identity bias.
Intrigued by the medium of sound with its direct and often subconscious physical impact, Sinéad creates womb-like environments and meditative experiences. Interested in the ownership and construction of language from an intersectional feminist perspective, Sinéad seeks methods to disrupt mainstream narrative. Critiquing popular culture, social media and mainstream media outlets and inspired by writers like bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Y. Davis, Luce Irigarary and Donna Haraway, Sinéad highlights themes of bias and privilege within class structures and examines topics of gender based violence, sexuality and grief. More recently, Sinéad has sought to employ love and joy within her work and to provide space for empathetic contemplation and rest.
The overriding question that informs Sinéad’s practice is Who DO we hear from and why?
Intrigued by the medium of sound with its direct and often subconscious physical impact, Sinéad creates womb-like environments and meditative experiences. Interested in the ownership and construction of language from an intersectional feminist perspective, Sinéad seeks methods to disrupt mainstream narrative. Critiquing popular culture, social media and mainstream media outlets and inspired by writers like bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Y. Davis, Luce Irigarary and Donna Haraway, Sinéad highlights themes of bias and privilege within class structures and examines topics of gender based violence, sexuality and grief. More recently, Sinéad has sought to employ love and joy within her work and to provide space for empathetic contemplation and rest.
The overriding question that informs Sinéad’s practice is Who DO we hear from and why?