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Welcome to my blogsite. I'm Seán O'Neill as the name suggests and I'm an Irish artist, living in Dublin, mainly producing paintings, working in both 2-D (Stamp-cells) and 3-D (assemblages).
I like to probe the interfaces between science and art- the internet, artificial intelligence, quantum physics, space exploration.. the boundless possibilities and mind-boggling beauty of it all inspires me with awe.
The media in an age of image-saturation and information overload is also a theme that I find inspiration in. It's partly a train-wreck type of fascination, as in- where is it all heading, but this is where space comes in again.
This is also where psychiatry and percieved ideas of what it is to be 'sane' come in. The CoBrA Group painter Karel Appel wrote a poem called 'Mad Talk' that very brilliantly describes the folly of classifying one mindset as 'Mad' and another as 'Unmad' when it's more likely they're both a bit from column A and a bit from column B, and the very concept of Madness is in itself- mad.
Consciously, when I'm painting, I'm mainly concerned with colour and shape, but my personal obsessions inevitably come through one way or another. I think they come through more strongly when it happens subconciously.
I also occasionally make sculptures, comic art {http://www.wix.com/joclock1/the-flash}, and street art. I find the time for these activities, while also holding down a day-job, by eschewing things like watching t.v. and using social media.
I like to probe the interfaces between science and art- the internet, artificial intelligence, quantum physics, space exploration.. the boundless possibilities and mind-boggling beauty of it all inspires me with awe.
The media in an age of image-saturation and information overload is also a theme that I find inspiration in. It's partly a train-wreck type of fascination, as in- where is it all heading, but this is where space comes in again.
This is also where psychiatry and percieved ideas of what it is to be 'sane' come in. The CoBrA Group painter Karel Appel wrote a poem called 'Mad Talk' that very brilliantly describes the folly of classifying one mindset as 'Mad' and another as 'Unmad' when it's more likely they're both a bit from column A and a bit from column B, and the very concept of Madness is in itself- mad.
Consciously, when I'm painting, I'm mainly concerned with colour and shape, but my personal obsessions inevitably come through one way or another. I think they come through more strongly when it happens subconciously.
I also occasionally make sculptures, comic art {http://www.wix.com/joclock1/the-flash}, and street art. I find the time for these activities, while also holding down a day-job, by eschewing things like watching t.v. and using social media.
