Swimmer

Jack O'Brien

Swimmer, 2023102 x 61 x 15cmPrice on Request
Details
MaterialGallery
soft pastel, spray paint, photographic print mounted on aluminium, heat-formed petg plastic, chrome plated steel, steel wire, springs, silver soup spoons, epoxy puttyGinny on Frederick
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork features a bold, circular red shape as the central visual element, surrounded by a reflective, plastic-like material that creates a sense of depth and distortion. The composition highlights the interplay of colors, shapes, and textures, with the steel rods and metal balls adding a sculptural quality to the piece. The artist employs a combination of industrial materials and found objects to create a visually striking and conceptually intriguing work that challenges the boundaries between art and everyday items. This artwork likely reflects the artist's exploration of themes related to technology, consumerism, and the relationship between the natural and artificial worlds. ...

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A tyrant called love is coming
Artist
Jack O'Brien

Jack O’Brien’s practice bridges connections and examines the relationships between the built environment, materiality, and aesthetics that exist on the fringes. Within his work, he makes use of both industrially produced materials and materials traditionally associated with ‘craft’, alongside objects that hold personal resonance and found objects. His typical materials range from steel, wood, dried flowers, socks, printed paper, horse-hair braid, rubber, concrete, and latex. Influenced by industrial production, fashion, architecture, and image-making, his sculptures are deeply emotive and serve as responses to consumption, capitalism, and the commodification of desire, along with their political and ideological histories. Through physically distorting his materials, such as by elongating, twisting, and folding, O’Brien explores how meaning can be altered and re-programmed. His recent practice has approached the commodification of queerness and queer aesthetics as well as the notions of taboo and fetish associated with the queer community. Through this, he intertwines decorative and ornamental styles with the connections between whiteness, masculinity, and fascism within gay culture. ...

Jack O'Brien: Artworks
Swimmer
Jack O'BrienSwimmer, 2023Price on Request
Slow Circle
Jack O'BrienSlow Circle, 2023Price on Request
Navel II
Jack O'BrienNavel II, 2023Price on Request
Navel III
Jack O'BrienNavel III, 20233750 GBP
Navel IV
Jack O'BrienNavel IV, 2023Price on Request
Navel V
Jack O'BrienNavel V, 20233750 GBP
Navel VI
Jack O'BrienNavel VI, 20233750 GBP
Navel VII
Jack O'BrienNavel VII, 2023Price on Request
Navel VIII
Jack O'BrienNavel VIII, 20233750 GBP
Whiplash I
Jack O'BrienWhiplash I, 2022Price on Request
Whiplash II
Jack O'BrienWhiplash II, 20224500 GBP
Adaptation
Jack O'BrienAdaptation, 20224500 GBP
There and Here
Jack O'BrienThere and Here, 2023Price on Request
Navel I
Jack O'BrienNavel I, null3750 GBP
A tyrant called love is coming
Jack O'BrienA tyrant called love is coming, 2023Price on Request
Ginny on Frederick
Gallery
Ginny on Frederick
London

Ginny on Frederick is a former shop unit opposite Smithfield Meat Market in Clerkenwell, east London, that’s capable of shapeshifting. ‘Frederick’ refers to founder and curator Freddie Powell’s original space on Frederick Terrace in Hackney, which closed during the first pandemic lockdown in 2020; ‘Ginny’ is his mum’s name. The anachronistic signage above the door of the current space reads ‘Sunset Sandwich Bar II: Hot & Cold Food to Take Away’, exemplifying what makes the gallery so compelling: it’s idiosyncratic, hiding in plain sight. Ginny on Frederick’s focus on young artists offers a sense of promise and something often missing in the capital: support at a local level for artists. ...