Qualifications
BA (Hons) Fine Art, MA Printmaking (RCA)
Department/School Art
Position Part-time Lecturer Fine Art
Research Group Fine Art
Web Address
www.oranoreilly.co.uk
I graduated from the Royal College of
Art in 2001 after completing an M.A in Printmaking and have been
teaching Part time at the University since 2002. My formal
training includes Painting, Silkscreen printing, Lithography,
Etching and Digital production. The work I have produced has
focused on the combination of a variety of processes including
painting, drawing, print and their interaction and relationship
with digital media. The work is mainly two dimensional,
concluding in paintings, prints and digitally outputted imagery.
The focus of the work is on the relationship between idea, form
and interaction with the viewer, The work is concerned with
narrative and the veneration of the art object.
My research is ongoing and aims to explore the dialogue between
digital media and traditional processes, My initial focus will
be on the use of digital drawing programmes, with the aim of
pushing for new ways of generating, outputting and exhibiting
the work produced. I currently work and have a studio in the
Royal Academy of Arts, where I have access to traditional
processes and up to date digital manipulation and output
facilities.
My work has been included in numerous national and international
exhibitions, and I have plans to curate and exhibit in the near
future.
Recent Work
- ‘This Show is Ribbed for Her Pleasure’
An Exhibition of work at Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
This was an exhibition of artists working in various mediums including painting, sculpture, print, drawing and digital. The exhibition received a number of reviews in the local press. The work that I produced for the exhibition included a number of digitally manipulated drawings that borrowed their language from painting and photography. I met with the gallery owner during the exhibition with a view to future involvement at the space.
- ‘Pork Barrel’
An Exhibition of work at Keith Talent Gallery, London
This was an exhibition of artists working around the theme of the object within contemporary society. I exhibited some small works that combined painting and digitally printed imagery.
- ‘Provincial Societies’
An article published in Quarterly Art Magazine: Miser & Now, Issue 4 ‘Eightysix Occurrences’
This was an article I wrote about an artist named John Hewitt and his particular blend of satirical observations and social commentary. It was written with an emphasis on his narrative construction and his historical referencing and its relationship to his chosen traditional printing processes.
- ‘Tube Way Army’
Exhibition of work at the Saab Rooms, Piccadilly, London
This was an exhibition of artists work within a Car Show Room. We were asked to respond to subject of the automobile. I responded to a number of images that I acquired from the internet and chose to look at the subjects conflicting qualities of beauty and vulnerability, combining digital media and drawing processes.
- ‘London Underground’
An exhibition of work at Toomey – Tourell Gallery, San Francisco
For this exhibition I produced a number of Canvas’ that were a combination of digitally
manipulated drawings and oil painting.
Current Research
My current research focuses on my own practice. I also
work within the Digital Print department at the Royal
Academy of Arts in London where we have a good working
relationship with Epson and Adobe. This allows me to
experiment with the latest in digital print technologies.
My work is concerned with extremes of love and loathing and
life and death. I am also interested in the relationship
between the ‘art’ object and icons that dictate and describe
our desires, delusions and dystopia.
The objects I choose to display are collages of household
matter, personal belongings and mass-produced knick-knacks.
They celebrate the beauty, functionality and abundance of
paraphernalia, whilst questioning the conflicting roles and
uses of contemporary objects.
Most recently my work has been outputted as large-scale
digital prints. They are pieced together from scanned
drawings and painted within the computer. It is important
that they exist within a 2-Dimensional format and reference
painting, so that they can be seen within a historical
context, yet simultaneously being plastic and repulsive.
I am represented by the Keith Talent Gallery in London and
the Toomey-Tourell Gallery in San Francisco. Currently, I am
making work for a number of National and International
exhibitions.
Images of Work
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Subversive Revelation |
Pop |
Plastic Fantastic |
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No Mans Land |
A Bad Taste in the Mouth |
A Pleasant Day in North Wales |
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God Appeared Over Walthamstow |
The Fence |
Cynthia Broan Gallery,
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Cynthia Broan Gallery,
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Marriage as Menace,
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Marriage as Menace,
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