Roanne O'Donnell
- Work
- Biography
process.
The subject of my work is the process of making it. With limitation, restriction and repetition, an exact set of materials and a constrained mark-making action, I have deliberately controlled its painfully slow development and direction. It is a twenty-three-year investigation.
The mark is a horizontal line.
The substrate is paper.
Carriers and binders are limited to oil and cold wax.
Pigments are restricted to charcoal and graphite.
The physical process is the repetitive action of mark-making, bending over paper laid flat, and moving my paint mixtures to create a line, over and over, again and again.
The concept is a question of gemination: ”No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” Paraphrase: Heraclitus of Ephesus.
The contention that duplication is impossible.
The motivation is to question it.
The subject of my work is the process of making it. With limitation, restriction and repetition, an exact set of materials and a constrained mark-making action, I have deliberately controlled its painfully slow development and direction. It is a twenty-three-year investigation.
The mark is a horizontal line.
The substrate is paper.
Carriers and binders are limited to oil and cold wax.
Pigments are restricted to charcoal and graphite.
The physical process is the repetitive action of mark-making, bending over paper laid flat, and moving my paint mixtures to create a line, over and over, again and again.
The concept is a question of gemination: ”No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” Paraphrase: Heraclitus of Ephesus.
The contention that duplication is impossible.
The motivation is to question it.
O’Donnell is a Scottish painter currently working in Spain and Scotland. With a Masters in Contemporary European Fine Art, she is an accomplished lecturer, recently being invited to lecture for Arts and Humanities, New York University, Abu Dhabi.
As a curator, parallel with her own art practice, she spent five years as Director of Galleri NordNorge, the Gallery of Northern Norway, collaborating with museums such as the National Museum of Art in Oslo, showing work by Paul McCarthy, Norway 10 and established international artists, providing a platform to emerging. She has many years of experience on the boards of commercial and creative organizations such as North-Norwegian Artists’ Union, Innovasjon Norge's Creative Development Project, presently, President of Fundación Sierra de Libar, Spain, collection committees of Sparebank1 NN Art Foundation.
UPCOMING 2024
'Quiet' with Charlene Scott, Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 25 May-14 June 2024
Upright Gallery Show, Edinburgh Festival, August 2024
RECENT PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS (2017 - )
The Holy Art. 'MOTION'. London, New York, Athens, 2024
XXIV Certamen De Pintura Acor Castilla y León 24, ACOR,
50 Concurso Internacional de Pintura Villa de Fuente Álamo, Spain 2022
The Way, Albe Art Gallery St. Petersburg, Russia 2022
VII Concurso de Artes Plásticas Dcoop, Antequera, Spain 2022
Brussels Art Exhibition, Belgium with Monat Gallery, Madrid 2021
COCA Project 2021, Rome 2021
The Creative Room, a.topos International Curatorial Collective, Venice 2021
The Enduring Legend of Experience, UFOFABRIK Contemporary Art at Madrid International Art Fair 2021
VIII Internacional Museo Virtual Mundoarte 2021
Trento Art Festival, Italy 2021
Rossocinabro Contemporary, Rome 2021
COLLECTIONS
Nordnorsk Kulturråd, Tromsø Kunstmuseum, Norway
North Norwegian Museum of Art
Scottish Office
As a curator, parallel with her own art practice, she spent five years as Director of Galleri NordNorge, the Gallery of Northern Norway, collaborating with museums such as the National Museum of Art in Oslo, showing work by Paul McCarthy, Norway 10 and established international artists, providing a platform to emerging. She has many years of experience on the boards of commercial and creative organizations such as North-Norwegian Artists’ Union, Innovasjon Norge's Creative Development Project, presently, President of Fundación Sierra de Libar, Spain, collection committees of Sparebank1 NN Art Foundation.
UPCOMING 2024
'Quiet' with Charlene Scott, Upright Gallery, Edinburgh, 25 May-14 June 2024
Upright Gallery Show, Edinburgh Festival, August 2024
RECENT PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS (2017 - )
The Holy Art. 'MOTION'. London, New York, Athens, 2024
XXIV Certamen De Pintura Acor Castilla y León 24, ACOR,
50 Concurso Internacional de Pintura Villa de Fuente Álamo, Spain 2022
The Way, Albe Art Gallery St. Petersburg, Russia 2022
VII Concurso de Artes Plásticas Dcoop, Antequera, Spain 2022
Brussels Art Exhibition, Belgium with Monat Gallery, Madrid 2021
COCA Project 2021, Rome 2021
The Creative Room, a.topos International Curatorial Collective, Venice 2021
The Enduring Legend of Experience, UFOFABRIK Contemporary Art at Madrid International Art Fair 2021
VIII Internacional Museo Virtual Mundoarte 2021
Trento Art Festival, Italy 2021
Rossocinabro Contemporary, Rome 2021
COLLECTIONS
Nordnorsk Kulturråd, Tromsø Kunstmuseum, Norway
North Norwegian Museum of Art
Scottish Office
- Roanne O'Donnell
- SURFACE WORK 3:10 Dry. Oil and cold wax on paper, 100x70cm
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- Roanne O'Donnell
- SURFACE WORK 2:10 (with detail) Oil and cold wax on paper, 100x70cm
- Painting
- Roanne O'Donnell
- SURFACE WORK Ratio 3:10 and 6:10, Oil and cold wax on paper, 100x70cm
- Painting
- Roanne O'Donnell
- SURFACE WORK Ratio 1:10 and 7:10, Oil and cold wax on paper, 100x70cm
- Painting
- Roanne O'Donnell
- SURFACE WORK Ratio 4:10 (with detail) Oil and cold wax on paper, 100x70cm
- Painting
- Roanne O'Donnell
- SURFACE WORK Ratio 2:10 Wet on Wet (detail) Oil and cold wax on paper, 100x70cm
- Painting
- Roanne O'Donnell
- SURFACE WORK Ratio 2:10 Wet on Wet (with detail)
- Painting
- Roanne O'Donnell
- SURFACE WORK ratios. Den Show
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