Ruairiadh O'Connell

Ruairiadh O'Connell works with found objects and moments, creating new associations between these objects leading the viewer to reconsider the environment in which they find themselves. Through O'Connell's somewhat gentle and acute sensitivity towards the everyday, we view the mundane with new eyes, where a simple object can not only be utilised for its own practical use, but can also take on a higher and more poetic meaning.

Born in 1983, lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany

Education

2008:     Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt (ongoing)
2006:     BA Honours, Oxford Brookes University

Forthcoming Exhibitions

2010:     Lichter/Filmtage, Frankfurt, 18-21 March

Something Blue, A curiosa of Contemporary Erotica, Neue Alte Brücke,

Frankfurt

Solo Show, BISCHOFF/WEISS August/September

Group Show, Basis, Frankfurt, Germany

Group Show, Britannia Space, Berlin, Germany

Solo Exhibitions

2009: Peek-a-boo, Projekt-Display, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt

Something and Else, Annarumma 404 Milan

2008: You Would Never Leave Me Would You, Bischoff/Weiss, London

Group Exhibitions

2009: Gruppenausstellung "normal painting", HfBK Städelschule, Frankfurt,

Evading Customs, Brown Gallery, London

Amuse Bouche, The Two Jhonnys' London
All Back To Mine, Wall, London

2008: Grotto, Museum 52, London

   What Was The Word I Want? Galeries Hussenot, Paris
   Sorry I can't Stay To Do The Dishes, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
   Ready Made Today, Steinle Contemporary, Munich, Germany
   Writing Objects, Art:Concept, Paris
   To Be Alert Is To Be Decorative, Ten Till Ten, Glasgow

2007: The Breakfast Club, Haunch of Venison, London
2006: Can You See The Love In Our Eyes, Mille D'Aire, Berlin

   Euro5Series, 251 Scawful Street
   This Time Next Year, Mashed Potato Gallery, London
   Manual Labour, Tara Byron Gallery, London
   Brookes Show, Modern Art, Oxford,

2005: How Fat Do you have to be to be Bullet-Proof? Modern Art Oxford, Oxford