Fiona Naomi Cashell (b. Dublin, Ireland, 1981) is a lens-based interdisciplinary artist using digital, material and hybrid practices to explore the boundaries and artistic use of performative and documentative style moving image works, photography, text, textile and print.
Growing up in a working-class south Dublin suburb and emigrating multiple times has profoundly affected Fiona's creative sensibility and interests in place. As a result, work created is usually situational in context – utilising the immediate environment and drawing from personal narratives, experiences and histories that correlate or draw connections between the self, memory, landscape and place. Other interests intersecting with or informing her practice include slow cinema, poetry, flora and fauna and wilded "lived" spaces, chance, philosophy, psychology and cultural studies.
Fiona is a professional member of the Teaching Council of Ireland and Visual Artists Ireland, and serves as an advisory board member for SAH Journal (Ireland). She exhibits widely, and her work has been shown in institutions such as Anthology Film Archives, New York; West African Research Center, Senegal; Temple Bar Cultural Trust, Ireland and CICA Art Museum, Korea.
Fiona holds an MFA in Studio Art from Stony Brook University, New York, and a BDes (Hons) in Visual Communication from MTU, Cork. She is also a graduate of the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.
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At Det Vilde Spinderi art residency, Denmark.
