Brian O'Callaghan
Brian O'Callaghan
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Flag Requiem, 2020
Lime wood panel, pigment, acrylic and graphite
17 x 13 x 2.5 cm
About this Work
Flag Requiem emerged through O’Callaghan’s research into Russian icon painting and our fascination with idolatry. The graphite lyrics come from a song the artist wrote about the injustice faced by refugees, which he has then inserted into a painting constructed from a limewood panel and layers of gold pigment.
About Brian O'Callaghan
Brian O’Callaghan is a London-based artist. He gained his BA in Fine Art at the University of Brighton, before completing an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. His practice spans painting, photography, writing and podcasting, in order to chronicle and document the world around him through his own journalistic language.
OʼCallaghan describes his work as a form of portraiture, capturing and reworking images of people whose stories and character interest him. Sometimes this methodology has a crossover with a journalistic, documentary aesthetic, including interviewing subjects and photographing them in a manner that links with a personal narrative. In the artist’s recent paintings, he has begun to develop his own abstract visual language, partly anchored in figuration, and blending memory, desire, poetry, and personal narrative.
Education
2020 - 21 Art + Design PGCE. UCL, London
2018 - 20 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London
2001 - 04 Critical Fine Art Practice, University of Brighton
2000 - 01 Fine Art Foundation - Bristol College
Exhibitions
2019
CSM Postgrad Art Auction, Lethaby Gallery, Kings Cross.
In Conversation: Isabella Blow in Kuwait. CSM Archive Museum
'We are here, here we are', Group Show, The Apiary, Hackney, London
Transitions, London College of Communication (5th - 15th February)
The Ministry of Other - Tate Exchange @ Tate Modern
2018
Transitions - Transmissions @ Vogue Fabrics, Dalston, London
2017
Teenage Daydreams' F/28 Photography Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2015
Transitions - Documentary Arts Asia, Chiang Mai, Thailand
2013
Fashion Illustration prints – JOJO Kobe Gallery, Thailand
2011
McQueen and I documentary - Archive material, C4, London
2010
Showcase cities - RICHMIX, London
2004
Group show, University of Brighton
2002
The Book Show, Brighton Library, University of Brighton
2000
Group show, The Watershed, Bristol