Alison O'Neill has a BA in Fine Art from Falmouth College of Arts and an MA in Feminist Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts from the University of Leeds where she studied with Griselda Pollock. Her work incorporates drawing, installation and video. She is interested in the intersection of class and gender and motherhood as a classed, performed activity.

During the residency at NHC Alison will be making a series of video works examining motherhood, memory and subjectivity.