Artist Talk - Roanne O'Donnell

About

O'Donnell makes paintings, drawings and frottage with a subtle minimalistic approach, the subject being the process of making it, inextricably linked to the concepts and actions of limitation, restriction and repetition. The work is systematic and meticulously planned works that resonate with surfaces created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal. Her works are notable for their perfect finish and tactile nature. This is of great importance and bears witness to her concern for craftsmanship. Her work has been exhibited worldwide and collected by such as The Scottish Office, North Norwegian Museum of Art and private collectors. Recent exhibitions include FAB2020 Contemporary Art Festival, with Outside The Form and Giornata del Contemporaneo, Associazione dei Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani, Rome. In 2021 she will show in Venice with a.topos Contemporary and in depth interviews can be read in contemporary art magazines, ART Habens Review, Reset Fine Art and Art Reveal Magazine.

Parallel with her own art practice O’Donnell is a curator and was the Director of the Gallery of Northern Norway, collaborating with the National Museum of Art in Oslo, curating and exhibiting work by Paul McCarthy, Norway 10 Designers and established international and emerging artists.

'The mark is a horizontal line. The most direct I know.

The substrate is paper.

Binders are limited to oil and cold wax.

Materials are restricted to ivory black pigment, graphite and charcoal.

The physical process is the monotonous repetitive movement of making lines by bending over paper, laid flat, and drawing the line or moving my paint mixtures across the surface over and over, again and again.

The concept is gemination: ”No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” Heraclitus of Ephesus.'

This event will take place on ZOOM and will include a Q and A with the artist.