Nicholas O'Connell
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)
Centred on play and interaction, my practice functions as a way of mediating an experience for the viewer. Through participatory ‘playstallations’, I hope to open a dialogue that challenges pre-structured parameters through a childlike desire to break them.
My object-based works create playful moments of kinetic disturbance through their ever-changing nature, summoning a spatio-temporal exchange between viewer and object as they react in space. I question how an object holds your time, your breath, and transports you; how we feel connected through the spaces in which we move; how to join through the play of life and breathe with the lungs of the world, and to pass on that breath.
I extend respects to all First Nations peoples where I practice my art, in Narrm, on land of the Kulin Nation.
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)
