Through various media - predominantly painting but also using video/animation and collage, I explore combinations/compositions of varying semi figurative imagery. Using reference material generally sourced from the Internet and imagery invented through the process of making. How this imagery is presented varies but often relates to interior spaces, landscapes, portraits, still life, icons and museology.
A flux of multi layered references flips from dream-like beauty and lightness to nightmarish melancholic banality and horror. A hypnotic, sickly sweet aesthetic is consistent; as is a sense of the uncanny or otherness. There is also a sense of re-newel, creation, metamorphosis and therefore perhaps evolution.
All of this essentially occurs within a timeless, virtual, alternate universe that reflects our own present. From one work to another there is a potential non-specific narrative link which creates an interchangeable cast of characters, props and locations.
Education
- 1997-2000 BA Painting City and Guilds of London Art School
- 2000-2002 MA Painting Royal College of Art
- Past Tutors -Graham Crowley, David Rayson, Peter Doig, Nigel Cooke, David Thorpe, John Stezaker,Paul Housley, Mathew Higgs, Dan Coombs, Vanessa Jackson, John Strutton....
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Shows
- 2008 New Dawn Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
- 2007 Adift The Fishmarket, Northhampton
- 2006 Vile Lure Rockwell Gallery, London
- 2003 Search and Destroy Solo Show, Rosy Wilde Gallery, London
Group Shows
- 2008 John Moores 25 Contemporary Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
- 2008 New London School Changing Role Gallery, Naples, Itlay
- 2007 The Future Can Wait Ellis/Rumley Projects, London
- 2007 Nature and Society, Dubrovacki Muzeji (Dubrovnik Museums)Croatia
- 2006 Metropolis Rise, New Art from London (organised by temporary contemporary), Shanghai and Beijing, May
Selected Publications
- Amelia’s Magazine Issue 9, Arts and Culture Biannual, Artist Feature 2008
- Nature and Society Catalogue, Text by Richard Dyer, Dubrovacki Muzeji(Dubrovnik Museums)Croatia 2007
- Metropolis Rise: New Art from London – Catalogue, 198pp, 132 colour, 68 b/w, 27 x 20cm, hardback, ed 1000, ISBN NR,1-873352-44-1
- TimeOut London – Review – ‘Vile Lure’ Solo Show – Nov 15th 2006 – Sally O’Reilly
