Lucienne O’Mara
Through my paintings I question the possibility of being separate from what we encounter, both as a body in an environment and when seeing. It could be said that never ‘just’ see something- visual perception is always a case of you looking at something and that something looking back at you. Also, the way in which we approach any object or situation is largely dependent on whatever pre-existing knowledge or ‘angle on the world’ that we already possess. In a sense, both the act of looking and one’s own assumptions determine what an object, a thing, or a space is.
My practice is informed by the activity of looking closely at the gaps between things; at where one thing ends and the next begins and asking whether that interval or space is something that can be defined. Borders and meeting points have become of particular significance for me as a consequence of the current political climate.
For me, painting stems from a kind of uncertainty about the nature of the real, and a desire to highlight the fractured way in which we receive visual information; it involves a rethinking and questioning of what is taken for granted in terms of seeing.
Education
MA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School (2017-2019)
Turps Banana Studio Programme (2012 – 2013)
City & Guilds of London Art School (2008 – 2011)
BA Hons Fine Art Painting: First Class Degree
Camberwell College of Art & Design (2007 – 2008)
Foundation Diploma
Group Exhibitions
2021
Reframing Rebuilding, Kaleidoscope Gallery
2020
This Is The House We Built, Walthamstow
2019
What Relief, Gallery 98
Creekside Open selected by Sacha Craddock
Creekside Open selected by Brian Griffith
2018
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
2017
Steal The Show, Bentinck Street, Glasgow
2016
Anthology, Charlie Smith London
Europa, Transition Gallery
Visions of Abstraction, Gallery Elena Shchukina
Flesh in Focus, Brocket Gallery
2015
Art Car Boot Fair
Greater Depths: Redefining Watercolour, Brocket Gallery
Vault Festival
2014
Wells Art Contemporary
Best of Bow Arts, selected by Mark Wallinger
Art Car Boot Fair, London, Liverpool, Folkestone
Tete a Tete, Cannes
Preamble, The Juncture, Unit 3
First Come, First Served, Lion and Lamb
2013
Freeze 13, The Mayor’s Parlour
⇒ Turps Banana Studio Programme Final Show, Vigo Gallery
Turps Banana Studio Exhibition, V22 Exhibition Space
Artist of the Day, Flowers Gallery
Art Car boot fair, Brick Lane
Turps Banana Interim Show, Mayor’s Parlour
First Come, First Served, Lion and Lamb
2012
House Rules, Simmons & Simmons
Victoria Park Salon, 1, 2 & 3
2011
City & Guilds Degree Show
2010
VAULT, Lambeth Accord
Solo Exhibitions
Sunset Strips and Stains, Brocket Gallery, 2016
Behind Your Burly, Town House Spitalfields, 2014
⇒ The Currell Collection, October 2012
Projects
2013
⇒ Co-founder of artist led, peripatetic initiative, The Juncture: http://www.thejuncture.co.uk
Collections
⇒ Currell
Awards
The Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers: 2011