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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 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.

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2025​

 

  • 2025 Inner West Council Arts Professional Development Grant Program Recipient

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2024

 

  • RÄ€HOROI Pyramid Club, Wellington, Aotearoa NZ, with Rob Thorne, May 2024, performance.

  • Current Energies (2024), Festival of Contemporary Electronic Music for International Women's Day, Church St Studios, Sydney NSW, March 2024, performance.

 

2023

 

  • Knowledge Circles (2023), Practise Access Practice exhibition, PACT Centre for Emerging Arts, Sydney NSW, Dec 2023, sound and graphic animation.

  • The Knowledge Circle project, PACT Centre for Emerging Arts, Sydney NSW, 2023, collective residency + research.

  • Return from Erasure (2023), PACT House RE:SOUND Concert Series, April 2023, performance.

 

2022

 

  • Return from Erasure (2022), Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW, Dec 2022, performance.

  • Artist in Residence, PACT Centre for Emerging Arts, Sydney NSW, Oct 2022.

  • NEXT LEVEL Creative Mentorship, Accessible Arts NSW & PACT, 2022, performing arts mentorship. 

  • Into the River - Te Awa Kairangi LIVE (2022), Frontyard Projects, Marrickville NSW, April 2022, performance.

  • Frontyard Projects Artist Residency, Marrickville NSW, Feb 2022.

  • Into the River - Te Awa Kairangi (2021), UNSW Galleries, Paddington NSW, Dec 2021, sound + video.

 

2021

 

  • Return from Erasure (2021), Crevice Communities Exhibition 2021, Charles Sturt University NSW, Dec 2021, sound + video installation.

  • Open C-A-C recipient, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown NSW, Nov 2021.

  • Creative Dharma guest artist & inaugural grant recipient, Creative Dharma, online, July 2021, performance.

 

2020

 

  • A bird's got to sing, Listening in the Anthropocene, Charles Sturt University NSW, Aug 2020, sound + video.

  • Itinerant Mind: Rúyì ই, WaveFarm, New York, USA, Dec 2019, audio broadcast collaboration.

  • The Hundred Steps Home, Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China, Dec 2019, sound + video installation.

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