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. Painting, like perception can not be quarintined, it will always escape its boundaries.

Based in Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland; I am a conceptual painter, constantly shifting my perspective and medium; early work of the 1990s consisted of large, abstract oil paintings that expressed a presence with epic implications; with the conceptualisation of my work in the late 1990s I explored representation and objecthood; a site-specific approach through the 2000s involved investigations into context and connectivity; a return to painting during the 2010s focused on the fragmentation of images; while recent developments include written, textile and digital artworks, continue my search to understand changing realities created by recent technological and political develoments.

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