Author: m.o.b
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‘Superstar’, MOB’s solo show juxtaposing worldly and spiritual identity, in the context of everyday life and pop culture (2013)
Once again, the artist used a school desk appropriated from Salesian Secondary School, an all-girls school in Limerick, across the road from where he attended an all-boys secondary school, painted black and this time with a striking combination of materials inside; Red Korean Hanji paper (a traditional hand made paper O’Brien grew fond of using…
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What was O’Brien’s first solo show like you ask!?… It was in a former Franciscan’s Friary, hundreds of drawings filled opened-up school desks, beside towering wooden sculptures. Opened by Nigel Rolf, the year was 2010…
The old wooden desks were sourced from the all-girls Salesian Secondary School, which happened to be right across the road from the all-boys secondary school O’Brien had attended, Ard Scoil Rís, both single-sex Catholic schools. Beside these desks stood two minimalist figurative sculptures, on a relatively large scale that expressed the artists fascination with pondering…
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‘Mike TV’, Public performance art for the punk within (2009)
In 2007, while still in art college, in the first year of his major in Sculpture & Combined Media, O’Brien brought the old family home television to the Georges Quay campus of the Limerick School of Art & Design. He then gutted it hollow and politely asked the course technician Pat Beasley to help him…
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Drawing dance & dialogue with Limerick communities for Dance Limerick’s Spark Creative Climate Action Project (2024)
O’Brien is currently taking part in Creating a Climate for Change in Limerick Creating a Climate for Change in Limerick is a new project from Dance Limerick’s DL.Bridge programme running until the end of 2024. DL.Bridge artist Katy Hewison and a team consisting of researchers Ciara Moynihan and Gülfem Cevheribucak, dance artist Roberta Ceginskaite, choreographer…
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Look Closer, A ‘Living Installation’ of 175 works in progress, at The Peoples Museum of Limerick (2024)
O’Brien revealed a new ‘living installation’ in January 2024, NFS until completion. Watch the artist explain the meaning and relevance of this work to his ongoing art practice, in the museum’s unique Coach House space at the pinned post on his Instagram profile: instagram.com/@artofmikeobrien