Lillian O’Neil makes large-scale analogue collages using found photographic imagery sourced from pre-digital books and magazines. The human condition, in the context of architectural, geological and meteorological events, is an ongoing concern in her work, as are the effects of both physical and emotional gravity. By cutting, resizing and recombining images, O’Neil constructs complex visual environments in which bodies, landscapes and built structures create new cosmologies.

O’Neil presented a solo exhibition at UNSW Galleries, Sydney (2024), and has been included in group exhibitions including All the World’s Memories at UNSW Galleries (2026), Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Inner Sanctum at the Art Gallery of South Australia (2024), and The Body Electric at the National Gallery of Australia (2020). She was awarded the 2021 Bowness Photography Prize at Monash Gallery of Art. She is currently undertaking a doctoral degree at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.