Sally O'Reilly

Sally O'Reilly (b. 1971) is a writer, critic, teacher, editor and events organiser. She has contributed to "Art Monthly", "Frieze", "Contemporary", " Modern Painters", and "Time Out" as well as writing catalogue articles and notes for numerous international art exhibitions, including Phyllida Barlow at the Baltic, Lars Arrhenius at Santiago de Compostella and Helen Frik at the Geementemuseum, The Hague. As well as an encyclopaedic knowledge of the current art scene, her writing displays a keen understanding of contemporary philosophy, and a deep awareness of debates in science and politics.

She has taught on the Master of Fine Arts course at Newcastle University, and is a visiting tutor at Goldsmiths, University of London. O'Reilly also co-edits [http://www.implicasphere.org.uk/ Implicasphere] , a broadsheet periodical published twice a year, which

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seeks to unearth and revive compelling, illuminating and curious ideas in the form of image and text fragments taken unadulterated from fields as diverse as folk craft, nuclear physics, metaphysical poetry, pulp novels, linguistics, criminology, film noir and astrology".
Haynes, Cathy and Sally O'Reilly, Implicaspere, An Itinerary of Meandering Thought [http://www.implicasphere.org.uk/ Implicasphere] Retrieved on January 15th 2007

She is particularly interested in the convergence of art and performance, and frameworks within which art and entertainment can co-exist.

She has taken an active part in many symposia and panel discussions, including such diverse events as the Science Fair at Camden Arts Centre and the Stockholm International Performance Art Festival, "Perfect Performance 2006".