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Emma O'Hara - The other side of the moon
Reserve not met
Estimate:
€2,000 - €5,000
Pending
€1,200
Timed Auction
Arthouse 2023 - Day 2
ARTIST
Emma O'Hara
Size
115 x 145cm
Category
Description
About artist: Emma O’Hara is a visual artist based in Cork City, Ireland. She graduated with a BA majoring in Printmaking in Contemporary Practice from the Limerick School of Art and Design (2016). O’Hara was awarded the Cork Printmakers 12-month Bursary (2016) where she has continued to hone & expand her visual practice. She has exhibited in numerous National and International exhibitions and he work has been collected by a number of private and public collections including the OPW.
About artwork: Oilpastel and Oil bar on BFk mounted and framed. Following a recent residency in Rimbun Dahan Arts Centre in Kuala Lumper, O’ Hara’s new work builds on her personal experience of living and working in the jungle to generate sensory explorations of imagined paradises. These boldly colourful and abstracted dreamscapes exist outside of time and space, completely immersing the viewer in the Artists vision and generously granting them access to her own experiences, ambitions and motives. O’ Hara’s emotionally charged works, depict lush and verdant, fantasy landscapes evoking a sense of reverie, nostalgia and wanderlust through vivid works on paper and ceramic vessels. Her confidence with colour and her daring use of strong abstract shapes paired with the spontaneity of the mark-making remind the viewer that this is a dream, a fluid, shifting space that is at once eternal and fleeting. The various scales and materials of the works add to the dreamscape with landscapes growing and shrinking becoming ferociously lucid or subtly delirious. The work conjures the memory of a landscape rather than a specific site, a gentle but poignant reminder of the precarious nature of our own natural environment and our obligation to protect it.
Website: https://emmaohara.com
Instagram: emmaoharaartist
Framed: Yes; 120 x 150cm
About artwork: Oilpastel and Oil bar on BFk mounted and framed. Following a recent residency in Rimbun Dahan Arts Centre in Kuala Lumper, O’ Hara’s new work builds on her personal experience of living and working in the jungle to generate sensory explorations of imagined paradises. These boldly colourful and abstracted dreamscapes exist outside of time and space, completely immersing the viewer in the Artists vision and generously granting them access to her own experiences, ambitions and motives. O’ Hara’s emotionally charged works, depict lush and verdant, fantasy landscapes evoking a sense of reverie, nostalgia and wanderlust through vivid works on paper and ceramic vessels. Her confidence with colour and her daring use of strong abstract shapes paired with the spontaneity of the mark-making remind the viewer that this is a dream, a fluid, shifting space that is at once eternal and fleeting. The various scales and materials of the works add to the dreamscape with landscapes growing and shrinking becoming ferociously lucid or subtly delirious. The work conjures the memory of a landscape rather than a specific site, a gentle but poignant reminder of the precarious nature of our own natural environment and our obligation to protect it.
Website: https://emmaohara.com
Instagram: emmaoharaartist
Framed: Yes; 120 x 150cm
Condition
Excellent Condition
Medium
Oil pastel/Oil bar
Signature
Yes
