About

Mandy O’Neill’s practice employs photography, installation, sound, text and public dialogue, to create affective environments and experiences for the viewer.

She is widely concerned with structures of power and ideology and how they impact on everyday experience. The built environment is of particular interest with its material nature finding expression in the materiality of her expanded photography practice.

Inhabiting a space between subjective impulse and social enquiry, she is interested in exploring the possibilities for her art practice as a multi-stranded and cross-disciplinary endeavour, and the  wider questions this might generate in relation to the pressing societal concerns of today.

Mandy has a PhD from DCU, an MA in Public Culture and Society from IADT and a BA in Photography from TU Dublin. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.  Selected exhibitions include Best Laid Plans, the Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin, 2024; Where Will We Meet, Multiple outdoor sites, Dublin, 2023 and Quiet At The Back, Photomuseum Ireland, Dublin, 2019. She has received funding from the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council, Creative Ireland and Culture Ireland and was winner of the 2018 Zurich Portrait Prize at NGI. Her practice-based PhD at Dublin City University was funded by the Irish Research Council. Her work is held in public and private collections, including the Arts Council of Ireland and National Gallery of Ireland.