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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…