About mo.sys

mo.sys (IPA: /ˈməʊzɪz/) is the adopted moniker of multi-modal artist Mark O'Connor. Irish-born and currently based just outside Portsmouth in the UK, Mark works across photography, digital collage, sculpture, and text to explore themes of identity, systems, and subversion. His work often juxtaposes the banal with the poetic, drawing influence from modern pop culture, classical forms, and socio-political commentary. With a background in both business and art, mo.sys navigates the line between structure and instinct, presence and persona. Mark is currently pursuing an MA in Fine Art at Falmouth University, deepening his exploration of media hybridity and spatial storytelling.

Artist Statement

My practice interrogates the systems that shape how we live, work, and see ourselves. I work across photography, digital collage, and sculpture, building visual interventions that often pit the artificial against the authentic. Using shop mannequins, mass-produced objects, and fragments of pop culture, I construct environments and figures that appear familiar — yet are estranged from commercial perfection.

Much of my work centers on collapse — of ideals, bodies, brands — and how visual languages inherit and disguise these tensions. In this way, I view the image not as a mirror but as a lens for critique, a site of resistance.

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