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Dermot O'Brien

 
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 Untitled(40 Coats) 2002
wollen overcoats, acryllic dye,MDF, coathooks.
Installation view.
Felix Leiter Gallery, Berlin
   
I have always been interested in the possibilities of materials and objects, that have a generative potential. By that I mean those with can generate light or heat or have another property. I have intentionally incorporated into my work the most ordinary utilitarian items, things which are not loaded or do not have so much of a history. They are all objects which act as metaphors for other ideas and also things which have a generative property in their own right. This however is sometimes stifled and sometimes distilled. The work often juxtaposes polemic opposites, or there is an inversion of one polar opposite. I subvert or play with some kind of inversion of an object, I am also interested in the relationship between art and science and nature, or at least natural orders, juxtaposing the random and the constant.
   

Dermot O'Brien

1968 born in Dublin, Ireland

Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

Education

Chelsea School Of Art -1986-87.
Goldsmiths' College - 1987-90.

Grants

2002 British Council Travel Bursary
1999 Pollock Krasner Foundation Award
1997 British Council Travel Bursary

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Payne Shurvell Gallery, London.
2011 MOCA London “Substance and Accident”
2002 Programa Art Center, Mexico City, Mexico
2002 FelixLeiter Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
1999 Singel 74, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
1998 Peninsula Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1995 Museum of Installation, London

Group Exhibitions

2011 Payne Shurvell Gallery, London. “Your Garden is a mess…”. Curated by Andrew Curtis


2010 Charles Dickens Museum, London. “Beyond the Dust Heaps”.
2010 Payne Shurvell Gallery, London. “Rational/Irrational”
2010 Bethnal Green Library, London. “Barmy Park”
2010 Woburn Gallery, London. “The Shipping Forecast”
2010 Payne Shurvell Gallery, London. “A Bright and Guilty Place”
2010 Charles Dickens Museum, London. “Preambles and Perambulations”.

2008 161a Whitecross Street, London. “A line has two sides”.
2008 Circle Community Projects, London. “Climate4Change”
2006 Curatorspace, London. “Q”.
2005 Trunk Show. Womens Library, London Metropolitan University, London
2004 Mementoes and Other Curiosities, Familioes House, London.
2003 Galerie Garanin, Berlin, Germany
2002 “40 Künstler”.Pugh,Pugh,Barney McGrew,Cuthbert,Dibble,Grough, Berlin, Germany
2002 Multiplication. (British Council Touring Exhibition,)Muzeul de Arta Brasov,
Muzeul Brukenthal Sibiu, Romania
Awagarda Gallery, Wroclaw,Poland, Husova Street Gallery,Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague,
Czech Republic
Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2002 “Not I”(Bedtime) Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2001 Multiplication.National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest
2001 BBQ Project, Berlin, Germany.
2001 Stadt Munchen Photo Gallery, Amsterdam
2000 Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds. 7/5-
2000 Vous Etes Ici Gallery, Amsterdam, NL “SUITE VOICES 2”
2000 Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham. “Box Project”,
2000 Touring: Turnpike Gallery, Manchester. MOI, London
2000 “Not I” Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast .
2000 Polstar Arts Commision Programme, Leicester Square, London
1999 Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin ,Ireland. Multiples X3.
1999 “Not I” Het Consortium, Amsterdam.
1998 Museum of Installation, London. "Mercury".
1998 Het Consortium, Amsterdam Netherlands. "Soon"
1998 Singel 74, Amsterdam, Netherlands. “When Summer is Almost Gone”.
1997 Richard Salmon Gallery, London, " Light".
1997 Peninsula Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands: Oranges & Lemons,
1997 Spacex Gallery, Exeter. " Light".
1996 Art London 96, Business Design Centre, Islington. , London.
1996 Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick Upon Tweed.Now Wash Your Hands: Touring-:
1996 Cole And Cole Ltd. Oxford."Out Of Space". (Curated By Emma Sandbach)
1996 Underwood Street Gallery, London. Soon.
1995 Cairn Gallery, Gloucestershire. “Anti-Slogans”
1995 Starkmann Ltd., London. In search of the miraculous,
1995 Museum Of Installation, London. Archive.
1995 Laure Gennilard Gallery, London: Melange D Áout.
1995 Institute Of Contemporary Art, ICA Bookshop, London. Glass Shelf Show,
1995 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol. "Now Wash Your Hands",
1994 The Agency Gallery, London: Miniatures
1993 Launch. Curtain Road Arts, London.
1991 Clove Building, London
1991 Clove Gallery, London
1990 B.A Degree Show. Goldsmiths' College, London.
1989 Nationale Ecole Des Beaux Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
1989 Thirty Seven Seconds, Slaughterhouse Gallery, London.

Projects

1990-2 Clove Building Gallery Project, London.
1991-9 Curtain Road Arts, London.
1999- 2002 Mellow Birds, London

Collections

The British Council, London,
Private Collections, Amsterdam
Stichiting Vedute, Amsterdam
Private Collection, London.
Private Collections, Germany

Bibliography

The Artists Studio Garageland Magazine. Winter/Spring 2011
Andrea Hildenstock Berliner Morgenpost: Feullion, August 9th 2001.“Logik im Umkehrschluss”
Christa Maria Lerm Hayes CIRCA 93, Autumn 2000. Reveiw ” Not I”.
Maartije Den Breejen Het Parool, February 4th 1999."Opgelost in Aanwezigheid."
Erik Hagroot De Volkskrant, March 4th.1998 . "Zacht drumstel uit jonge Britse Kunst"
Ludo Dosgogne Gazet Van Antwerp. April 24th 1998 "Grillige Prijzen voor kunst op Art Brussels"
John Winsor The Independent Saturday Magazine, May 30th 1998. "Pinstripe Medicis"
Nicolas De Oliveira Mercury, Catalogue Introduction, Museum Of Installation, London.1998
Angelique Spaninks Eindhovens Dagblad, August 25th 1998.
"Sfeerwol sterren kijken bij Peninsula"
Angelique Spaninks Eindhovens Dagblad, 25/5/1997.
"Engelse Kunst met aangenaam alledaags kantje"
Jennifer Higgie. Frieze. January/February 1997
Emma Sandbach Catalogue. Out of Space. Cole And Cole Ltd. Oxford.1996
David Lillington Catalogue "Soon" Underwood Street Gallery, London.1996
Fiona Murphy Weekend Guardian, January 13th 1996
"Minumental Art or Monumental Rubbish"
Peter Tozer Art Monthly No.183: February :Review; Now Wash Your Hands.1996
Penny Pritchard Northern Review, May 1996
Nicolas De Oliveira Catalogue Introduction, Museum Of Installation, London. 1995
Tanya Guha Time Out: February 7-14th.1995
Georgina Adam Daily Telegraph, February 27th 1995. "Brits With Attitude"
Sarah Kent Time Out: March 8-15th 1995
Erika Ledermann Art Monthly: Editions Page. No ,173. April 1995
Rob Kesseler Untitled Magazine . Artists' Books, - Summer 1995
Rebecca Fortnum Interview, "Now Wash Your Hands" Arnolfini, Bristol, November 1995
Josephine Lanyan Catalogue Essay. "Now Wash Your Hands. "Arnolfini, Bristol, November 1995
Ian Gale Independent , December 5th 1995 "Everyday Objects Of Desire"
David Lillington Time Out; December 21st 1991 -January 3rd 1992
Sarah Kent. Time Out; February 21st-22nd 199

Links

www.dermotobrien.net

www.payneshurvell.com

   

Dermot O'Brien

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Payne Shurvell Gallery
16 Hewett Street
London EC2A 3NN
United Kingdom

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