Jacqui O’Reilly
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11 – 12 April
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Jacqui O’Reilly
Jacqui O’Reilly is an autistic artist and musician from Aotearoa New Zealand, now based on Gadigal Land. Her experimental practice investigates identity, place and sensory perception with a focus on sound as material, to explore social and environmental relations. O’Reilly’s work is embedded in her lifelong experience of creative adaptation, to voice sensory interconnection in deeply nuanced ways. Intimate communication with her materials and hypnotic, repetitive methods of making, shape the composition of mesmerising music, video work and live performances.
Over the past five years O’Reilly’s work has been presented at DRAW Space Gallery, Newtown NSW, Pyramid Club, Aotearoa NZ; Church St Studios, Camperdown NSW; PACT, Sydney NSW; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW; Frontyard Projects, Marrickville NSW; and UNSW Galleries, Paddington NSW.
O’Reilly has a BA Media Arts (Honours) from UNSW Art, Design & Architecture and she was recently awarded an Inner West Council Arts Professional Development Arts Grant. Her studio practice is currently based at Church Street Studios, Camperdown NSW. In May 2024, she released the single Quiet Constellation, available on Bandcamp and filmed at the Golden Age Cinema in Sydney, NSW.