Maeve Brennan is an artist and filmmaker based in London. Her practice explores the political and historical resonance of material and place. Working primarily with moving image, as well as installation, sculpture, and printed matter, she develops long-term investigations led by personal encounters. Adopting a documentary approach, Maeve gains intimacy and proximity with her subjects; producing complex and layered accounts that disrupt dominant representations. With a particular focus on forms of expertise that encompass an associated physical practice – geologists, archaeologists, architects, mechanics, embroiderers – her works excavate the multiple narratives latent in material itself.
Recent exhibitions include Chisenhale Gallery, London; Spike Island, Bristol and The Whitworth, University of Manchester. Her films have screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam; FILMADRID; Sheffield Doc Fest and Sonic Acts, Amsterdam. She received the Jerwood/FVU Award 2018 and is the Stanley Picker Art & Design Fellow (2019–21).