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William O'Neill - Proximate Bananas l
Estimate:
€1,200 - €3,000
Sold
€1,200
Timed Auction
Arthouse 2024 - Day 1
ARTIST
William O'Neill
Size
80 cmx 90cm x 2cm
Category
Description
About artist: William O’Neill is a visual artist living and working in Meath, Ireland. He graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Art Painting from the National College of Art and Design in 2009.
His paintings are process driven. He meticulously creates still life scenes which he photographs and works from. He’s interested in these still life arrangements for their angles, shapes, the positive/negative space they create, how the objects interact with each other and their potential as subject matter.
‘Luminous Gatherings’ his first solo exhibition took place at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery in April 2022. He was the recipient of the Solstice Visual Arts Award at Solstice Arts Centre (2021). In 2019, he was shortlisted for the RHA Hennessy Craig Award. Recent group exhibitions include, Bucolica Open Call Exhibition, Mount Congreve Gardens, 2024, 194th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, 2024 and Surveyor 2023, Solstice Arts Centre, 2023.
About artwork: My work is process driven. I’m interested in still life arrangements for their angles, shapes, the positive/negative space they create, how the objects interact with each other and their potential as subject matter. The still lifes are composed of objects sourced from my family home, charity/vintage shops and, more recently fruit and vegetables from supermarkets. I’ve been attracted to retro objects for quite some time, drawn to them for their minimal and simplistic qualities. There’s also a familiarity and history to these old, sometimes, forgotten objects. They have a quiet still beauty and carry a sense of nostalgia. The paintings of the objects then reflect the passage of time and fragments of daily lives lived. More recently I have shifted to using fruit and vegetables as subject matter within the still lifes. I’m enjoying working with these organic, colourful shapes, which deviate from the man-made rectangular forms that have been part of so many of my compositions. Objects, which I use, are selected based on an instinctive reaction to them. I prefer forms that have anonymity about them, that aren’t spectacular in their own right but can be extraordinary when examined closely through the paint. A lot of time and consideration goes into creating arrangements, which can be used for paintings. When I’ve settled on a composition, I take multiple photographs sometimes using the flash of the camera to emphasize the objects, creating dramatic contrasts of light and shadow. When I work them into paint, colours seen in the photos are not exactly reproduced so the paintings are a new image in their own right. In some paintings details are willfully left out to allow an emphasis on the paint itself, texture, brushwork and mark making.
Website: https://www.williamoneill.ie
Instagram handle:: @_williamoneill_
About artwork: My work is process driven. I’m interested in still life arrangements for their angles, shapes, the positive/negative space they create, how the objects interact with each other and their potential as subject matter. The still lifes are composed of objects sourced from my family home, charity/vintage shops and, more recently fruit and vegetables from supermarkets. I’ve been attracted to retro objects for quite some time, drawn to them for their minimal and simplistic qualities. There’s also a familiarity and history to these old, sometimes, forgotten objects. They have a quiet still beauty and carry a sense of nostalgia. The paintings of the objects then reflect the passage of time and fragments of daily lives lived. More recently I have shifted to using fruit and vegetables as subject matter within the still lifes. I’m enjoying working with these organic, colourful shapes, which deviate from the man-made rectangular forms that have been part of so many of my compositions. Objects, which I use, are selected based on an instinctive reaction to them. I prefer forms that have anonymity about them, that aren’t spectacular in their own right but can be extraordinary when examined closely through the paint. A lot of time and consideration goes into creating arrangements, which can be used for paintings. When I’ve settled on a composition, I take multiple photographs sometimes using the flash of the camera to emphasize the objects, creating dramatic contrasts of light and shadow. When I work them into paint, colours seen in the photos are not exactly reproduced so the paintings are a new image in their own right. In some paintings details are willfully left out to allow an emphasis on the paint itself, texture, brushwork and mark making.
Website: https://www.williamoneill.ie
Instagram handle:: @_williamoneill_
Condition
Excellent Condition
Medium
Oil on linen
Signature
Yes
