Whiplash I

Jack O'Brien

Whiplash I, 202280 x 20 x 14cmPrice on Request
Details
MaterialGallery
white shirt, bottle of wine, epoxy puttyGinny on Frederick
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

This contemporary artwork features a simple, minimalist composition. The predominant visual elements are the monochromatic white drapery and the small glass vessel filled with a golden liquid, likely a perfume or essence. The draped fabric creates a sense of movement and fluidity, contrasting with the static, geometric form of the glass container. The style is clean and elegant, highlighting the interplay between the soft, billowing textile and the rigid, transparent vessel. This piece likely explores themes of purity, refinement, and the ephemeral nature of scent or essence, inviting the viewer to contemplate the delicate balance between the tangible and the intangible. ...

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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
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Navel II
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Navel III
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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
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Adaptation
Jack O'BrienAdaptation, 20224500 GBP
There and Here
Jack O'BrienThere and Here, 2023Price on Request
Navel I
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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. ...