Miriam O’ Connor

Miriam O'Connor, Untitled, From the series Blue and Green should never be seen

The works presented correspond to two separate projects,’Blue and Green should never be seen’ and ‘Attention Seekers. Her new work from ongoing series ‘Blue and Green should never be seen’ engages with O’Connor’s return to the family farm.

Regarding ‘Attention Seekers’, Miriam writes: ‘We spend much of our daily lives caught up in busy routines, unobservant of the curious details that make up the visual world we are passing through. Attention Seekers is a body of work which lingers on these often overlooked traces, singling them out with an attentive and subtle gaze that imbues them with a mysterious and magical vitality. The subjects of these images solicit attention – that of the photographer and, ultimately, of the viewer – with their strangely insistent and often subtly unsettling juxtapositions, shapes and colours. Modest or minute elements are reoccurring motifs across the series, where, time, location and horizon lines are regularly obscured – comparatively hazy. Full of ambiguous clues and mischievous suggestions, the images represent, above all, a deep curiosity around looking and seeing, and a preoccupation with the impression that these scenes in some way return the gaze’.

Untitled, from the series Blue and Green should never be seen
Printed in 2015
Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gsm
25w x 38h cm Unframed, 28w x 41h cm Framed
Edition of 20
Framed
€250 Unframed, €350 Framed

Untitled Image from the series Blue and Green should never be seen
Printed in 2015
Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 gsm
30w x 20h cm Unframed, 33w x 23h cm Framed
Edition of 20
Framed
€150 Unframed & €250 Framed

Untitled, from the series Attention Seekers
Printed in 2011
Archival Pigment Ink on Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta 325gsm
42w x 28h cm Unframed, 46w x 32h cm Framed
Edition of 8
€300 Unframed, €400 Framed

Irish artist, Miriam O’Connor lives and works in Cork. In her practice she draws inspiration from the language, sights and sounds of the everyday, and is concerned with the subtleties of looking and seeing, the relationship between camera and viewer, and the special ambiguity of still images. She holds a BA in photography from Dublin Institute of Technology, and completed a Research Masters at the Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire in 2011. Her work has been featured in a wide range of photography publications and she has exhibited in solo and group shows in Ireland and internationally.

In January 2012, PogoBooks, Berlin and Galleri Image, Denmark published her first photo book Attention Seekers. In 2012, she received the Alliance Française Photography Award, for her project The Misbehaving Camera, which included a residency at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. She has had solo shows at Galleri Image, Denmark, The Third Space Gallery, Belfast, and in ‘THERE THERE’, Cork, curated by Stag and Deer. She was a nominee for the Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Photography Awards and produced her second photobook, The Legacy Project, an arts commission by The National Women’s Council of Ireland in 2013. In conjunction with Galleri Image, Denmark, she has recently produced new work for FRESH EYES – International artists rethink Aarhus, which will be exhibited during Aarhus Capital of Culture, 2017.

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Miriam O’ Connor

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