Selected pieces from my visual portfolio.
Fragments, process, and observations from the studio - part journal, part scrapheap, part dispatch from the edge of making.
26June
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There is a recurring symbol I use in my practice which is a high gloss fibreglass mannequin. I rescued the mannequin on the final clearance, and final trading day of the Debenhams department store in Southsea in 2020.
Debenhams Southsea (M...
03June
As I went about my week, I wrestled with the question posed by our tutor: What does art mean to me?
At first, in my journal, I wrote a list of words – aesthetics, language, expression, communication, challenge, mind-expanding, objecthood etc. I began to...
27May
My name is Mark O’Connor. It’s the name I was given, born into — but it’s not the name I create under.
There are already Mark O’Connors established and building reputations in music, poetry, and visual art. To keep that name would be to risk confusing...
