Fiona’s research interests are concerned with the inter-media exchange between photography, sound, installation and the moving image. This plurality of practice is harnessed to critically examine three predominant fields of inquiry; the dialectics of memory, the discourse of space & place, aftermath and the post conflict condition.
The contextual focus of her research and practice includes:
- Sites of memory: political instrumentality in the construction & representation of the past
- Spatial transformation and the parameters of place: identity, belonging and re-invention
- Hierarchy of memory: intervention, exclusion & control in the post conflict landscape
- Spatial-temporal encounter of the contemplative & meditative, historical & memorial, private & interior; translation & affect in representation
Recent research has focused on Northern Ireland and considers the role and critical capacity of visual art as it relates to the transition of reconciliation & memorialisation.
