ART OF MIKE O'BRIEN

Category: Exhibitions

  • Perla National Gallery of Art, Prague – Residency (2017)

    Perla National Gallery of Art, Prague – Residency (2017)

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    The artist had just started a 3-year residence term in the Johns Square ‘Living cultural quarter’ artist’s apartments, granted by the Limerick city & county council based on artistic merit. O’Brien was also venturing off to Prague to live and work in Perla National Gallery of Art for one month and to then exhibit the…

  • Touch Me, solo show, Divus Gallery London (2013)

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    This was O’Brien’s first solo show outside of Ireland, in DIVUS London, Enclave 5, London, UK. It was curated by fellow artist Beth Fox, who he had been in the same Sculpture & Combined Media degree with in the Limerick School of Art & Design, Ireland. Here are excerpts of some of the the artist’s…

  • Superstar, solo show, Limerick (2013)

    Superstar, solo show, Limerick (2013)

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    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…