She publishes and distributes text in conventional and expanded forms, from art magazines to performance lectures to opera.
Her divergent subject matter contributes to an ongoing investigation into how knowledge is generated, obtained and expressed.
O'Reilly co-edited Implicasphere [1], a broadsheet periodical published twice a year and distributed within Cabinet magazine, which sought 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.
Cathy Haynes and Sally O'Reilly, Implicaspere, An Itinerary of Meandering Thought Implicasphere Retrieved on January 15th 2007O'Reilly co-curated the Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition Magic Show, with Jonathan Allen[1] and was producer and co-writer of The Last of the Red Wine, a radio sitcom based in the artworld devised and performed at the ICA, London, 2011.
She wrote the libretto for the opera The Virtues of Things in collaboration with British composer Matt Rogers.