About Me
- About:
- Lisa O'Donnell was born in Galway, Ireland in 1986. She graduated from GMIT with a first class honours in Fine Art. She is currently based in London, studying for her MA Fine Art in Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Her practice revolves predominantly around painting, however she often makes work in other mediums including, video, animation and photography. Her process includes to some extent the process of circulation where source imagery is filtered though mediums including film and photography. The filtration through to a painting adds layers of distance between the viewer and the scene depicted. Her choice of imagery has not been geared towards the spectacular but more towards an image that has a sense of ambiguity that can be transferred into a painting. She is drawn to enigmatic scenes where her interpretation is the starting point for the viewer to make their own conclusions. Most of the works act not as individual pieces but as part of a hybrid. The Polaroid offers a filter for issues and personal interests. It is a cultural artifact that is for the artist, a filter of images that aesthetically as well as metaphorically reminds her of a different time.
I pondered to myself recently what were the most important things in my life. The answer seems to be clear that art was up there in importance. Why? Frankly, I don't really know. May be someone here can enlighten me?
ReplyDeleteAs was my wont w
hen I have some free time, I browsed the marvelous site, wahooart.com, where they keep thousands of digital images for customers to select to have printed into handsome canvas prints for their homes.
This image jumped out to jolt my reveries: Still life with bread, by the Cubist Georges Braque. Is art like this picture, as essential as bread and water, or should I say bread and wine?