Portraiture Explorations
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King of Infinite Space/Don't Let Life Pass You By
Oil, acrylic, ink on canvas
[Exhibited at the biennial John Moores Painting Prize 2014]
The paradox of the astronaut suit and a domestic setting creates a tension suggesting a plurality of narratives. A coalescence of implications obscures the balance between the realistic and romantic. This juxtaposition of the normative, of the ordinary and of the domestic environment, plays against the ultimate pioneering gesture embodied within the reference to space travel.
The painting remains a hymn to the infinite freedom of the imagination, despite the restraints of the mundane real world. It's acknowledges impending mid-life, and the first sobering realisation of mortality that this can bring, whilst including an assessment of achievements, or the lack thereof - the pangs of what might have been.
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Self-Portrait In a Borrowed Replica Spacesuit
Oil on canvas
Photorealistic exploration in the field of portraiture. The piece alludes to Multiverse Theory which postulates that there could be other universes besides our own, in which all the different choices you could have made in this life play out in alternate realities.
Self-Portrait In A Borrowed Spacesuit’ was one of the select few portraits displayed on the banners adorning the Wallace Collection, Mayfair, (London) for several months during filming for Sky Arts TV in 2017. The piece was also pre-selected for the prestigious BP Portrait Award.
Trauma Mannequins Lab Series
Exhibited at The Royal Mall Galleries, London, Discerning Eye show.
David O'Malley's process involves the absorption of scientific representations whilst intermittently ruminating on the human condition and the metaphysical. A sense of intrigue and wonder oscillates with a more dispassionate, existential gaze.
Human Race
Experimental Portraits Archive
Experimental Portraits Archive
Art and science are channels through which David O'Malley relates to his London environ of eight million strangers. Interested in the context of the wider picture, his references encompass allusions to; space science, cosmology, theoretical physics, philosophy, metaphysics and also socio-politics; his degree dissertation was entitled "Art and Politics Intersect (Three Representative Moments During the C20)".
#humanbehaviour
#humancondition
The characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality.
The artist conducts commissioned work.
Contact info(at)davidom.com
#humancondition
The characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality.
The artist conducts commissioned work.
Contact info(at)davidom.com
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any civilisation reading our messages could be billions of years ahead of humans
Further investigative experiments into portraiture...
Human Celebrity Studies [4-hour, time-restricted]
Celebrities are constantly being incorporated into the lives of others they do not know, but who believe they know them. From their media realm, the successful & famous live out the dreams that occupy ordinary people. No age has designed and purveyed more distractions from reality than our own, today celebrity exists for and by an information age. In our global and atomized world of bits and bytes, where information is instantly available and massive in its quantities, and as perishable as an electronic image, celebrities help personalise that information - they put a human face on it.
any civilisation reading our messages could be billions of years ahead of humans
Further investigative experiments into portraiture...
Human Celebrity Studies [4-hour, time-restricted]
Celebrities are constantly being incorporated into the lives of others they do not know, but who believe they know them. From their media realm, the successful & famous live out the dreams that occupy ordinary people. No age has designed and purveyed more distractions from reality than our own, today celebrity exists for and by an information age. In our global and atomized world of bits and bytes, where information is instantly available and massive in its quantities, and as perishable as an electronic image, celebrities help personalise that information - they put a human face on it.
