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Robert O'Connor

Paintings

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Core
11 March to 5 April 2011		 2011 Preview Exhibition & Honours Award Exhibition
 14 January to 3 February 2011
Deus ex Machina
7 August to 3 September 2009		 The Great White Hoax
Moorilla Scholarship Exhibition
6 to 18 May 2008
Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart

Additional works
May 2008

Paradiso@Raincheck
18 March to 15 May 2007
Launching the bettgallery@raincheck exhibition wall
I care because you do
12 November to 9 December 2006
Redwall Gallery		 RuinArt (new paintings)
23 June to 14 July 2006
Entrepot Gallery
Tasmanian School of Art
University of Tasmania
 

Robert O'Connor's paintings question ideas of authorship and originality in art with direct references to image reproduction.

O'Connor says: "Armed with the postmodern trends of appropriation, pastiche and ironic estrangement, the works question ideas of originality and authorship while remaining engaged with painting traditions.

"Much as a magpie collects shinny things or a catfish eats shit, I collect images.  Well, perhaps I don't collect them as much as they are thrown at me, along with opinions, everyday and mostly unsolicited. 

"What I do is organise images in a way that I think makes sense, which in reality results in a mess of borrowed imagery that makes no immediate sense whatsoever.  These collected images are arranged based on compositions of old masters, removing me from any true claim of authorship."

These works self-consciously ponder the future of painting by retrenching its past.

Enquiries welcomed.

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