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Alison O'Neill

Cambridge
Video Artist
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Alison O'Neill makes non-narrative, experimental moving image works that use video as a material to explore domestic imagination.

Her work looks at how the domestic space can both contain and construct the female subject and explores the formal, and often abstract, beauty of the ordinary and the everyday. This mundane beauty becomes the catalyst for an escape route into an imaginary world.

She trained in Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts before completing an MA in Feminist Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts at the University of Leeds, where she studied under the feminist art historian and cultural theorist Griselda Pollock.

Earlier video work explored the maternal experience within the context of power relations as well as visualising maternal subjectivity, longing and desire. This body of work included the videos Punctures and Nothing Gets Through, which were both shortlisted for the Birth Rites Collection Prize.

Recent exhibitions and screenings include Floorplan at Unit 2 Gallery, Hastings (2026); Bridge Video, Chicago (2023); Artist-Parent Pandemic Video and New Genres at the CAA Annual Conference, New York (2021); Open Out at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2019); The Birth Rites Collection Shortlist Screenings at The Whitworth, Manchester, and King's College London (2018); The Art of Surrender at Stills: Centre for Photography, Edinburgh (2018); and Quickening at the Nightingale Cinema, Chicago (2017). Her work is forthcoming in The Fold at Virga Gallery (online), opening October 2026.

 

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