Ruairiadh O'Connell

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:

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

2010:	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

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.