oisín byrne
born and currently working in dublin, oisin byrne paints "like a dream" creating "marvellous tumbling universes of line and colour, which shout: freedom!" (dubliner magazine, august 05).
advocating ‘an art which is the product of play’, oisín’s ‘chilled, blissed-out vision’ (aidan dunne, irish times, june 06) is tempered with humour and lightness, and takes influence from varied eastern perspectives and cultural traditions.
amelia blossom and the friendly energy being are pseudonyms, friends, and helpful spirits who pervade the most recent work. the friendly energy being is currently in incarnation as the main character in a series of some 100 drawings (soon to be published) and amelia appears both in the form of paintings, and in flocks of up to 1000 coloured origami pieces*.
in the new drawings, a vast simplicity and spaciousness emphasises ‘becoming’, and gives the recognisable cultural and literary references (ancient and modern, eastern and western) unbounded space in which to be ‘born afresh’.
advocating ‘an art which is the product of play’, oisín’s ‘chilled, blissed-out vision’ (aidan dunne, irish times, june 06) is tempered with humour and lightness, and takes influence from varied eastern perspectives and cultural traditions.
amelia blossom and the friendly energy being are pseudonyms, friends, and helpful spirits who pervade the most recent work. the friendly energy being is currently in incarnation as the main character in a series of some 100 drawings (soon to be published) and amelia appears both in the form of paintings, and in flocks of up to 1000 coloured origami pieces*.
in the new drawings, a vast simplicity and spaciousness emphasises ‘becoming’, and gives the recognisable cultural and literary references (ancient and modern, eastern and western) unbounded space in which to be ‘born afresh’.
these drawings will soon take the form of a book, which will be launched in dublin, london, and galway, with an accompanying exhibition.
oisín currently practices from studio 8 of temple bar galleries and studios, dublin.
* The tradition of making 1000 origami pieces (as in Oisin’s amelia blossom haven) is Japanese, practiced by children and adults as a manifest expression of a wish, marking occasions of great joy or sorrow. The origami pieces, or amelias, are friendly spirits, floating wishes, or good moods.