In 1997, I was walking back to college in Barcelona after dropping my son off at school. I was waiting to cross the road, thinking about art, as you do, when everything became very bright, and I realised there was no separation between my body and the world around me. I remember looking around, wondering if anyone else was aware of this change, then crossing the street and staring at my feet intently, trying to understand that they were the same as the zebra crossing I was walking across. It was very exciting, then faded away. Perception is subjective and interactive; we are touched by what we see, creating the world as it creates us.

Based in Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland, early work consisted of large, abstract paintings that expressed a presence with epic implications, the conceptualisation of my work in the 1990s was based on ideas of representation, a site-specific approach through the 2000s explored cultural perceptions, a return to painting in the 2010s looked at fragmentation and recent developments since 2020 include written, textile and digital artwork engaging a pan-disciplinary approach to making artwork exploring an increasingly post-representational technological reality.

To view recent work, contact Oliver Sears Gallery www.oliversearsgallery.com
+353 (0)1 6449459 / 33 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin 2, Ireland