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.
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

 

Solo Exhibitions
 

2010:      

Notice (project space) International project space, Birmingham

Six Play, BISCHOFF/WEISS August/September
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
 

2010:

Fondation Gutzwiller, Zurich

Group Show, Brown Collective, Pele's Empire, London, September/October

Group Show, Basis, Frankfurt, Germany

Group Show, Britannia Space, Berlin, Germany

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

Frankfurt

Irregular Wasps, (Group Show) Tintype, London

Lichter/Filmtage, Frankfurt, 18-21 March
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