SHAUN O'CONNOR
Shaun O'Connor's work meditates on the temporary signs, inscriptions and behaviors that activate public space.
Anonymous scrawlings of amateur graffiti writers, pseudo gang monikers, police arrest sheets, discarded prayers and crude blue collar handbill advertising serve as starting points for a series of meticulously modelled sculptures and studies on paper.
Works in this exhibition posit astute reflections on the mark making habits of people and the minor histories of the various city environs in which O’Connor has lived and worked in to date.
In 2010 the artist was engaged as Consultant Curator on The Stoke - Skateboarding in Brisbane at the Museum of Brisbane. 2010 also saw the artist selected for the Blake Prize for Religeous Art Director’s cut and in 2011 his work was exhibited in RAiR (Rotterdam Artist in Residence) as part of Art Rotterdam. In August 2011 the artist will take up a three-month residency in the Australia Council Paris studio. O'Connor's work is held in numerous private and institutional collections.
Shaun O'Connor is an Australian artist that currently lives and works in New York City.
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