Dilek O'Keeffe

After completing my Fine Art Degree course at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2002, I was selected for the “Best of New British Graduates” by the public gallery Beatrice Royal and showed at the Battersea Art Fair. The following year one of my works was selected for the Royal Academy Summer Show, which got international attention as well as interviews – from Rolling Stone to the BBC. Since then I have been a practising artist joining art fairs, community projects and national and international group and solo shows regularly.

For me personally turning an idea into an artwork is most rewarding. I mainly paint in oils on canvas or metal. I also use computers and photography extensively either as sketching tools or in their own right. Mostly I get inspired from contemporary life and visual media.

I tend to create different images and genres in parallel rather than work in series. Perspective, spirituality, illusion, lights, politics or consumerism have all been subject to my work so far. Some give me hope, some I just love the look of it. Hoping with some, I provoked and made few ripples.

Gerard Richter, Julien Opie, Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, M.C. Esher are some of the
Artists whom I´m influence...

Graduated in Fine Art Painting at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2002

“Every Second Counts Interactive Online Digital Project 2016-2017
“Mystical Stories” Address Istanbul 2016


• The Trunk at The Artworks in Elephant & Castle, 12th – 17th January 2016

• One New Change, City of London, 12th – 30th January

• The Market Hall Exhibition – A unique hanging installation of artwork, Borough Market, 12th – 30th January

• The Covent Garden Digital Dot Room, an immersive cinematic art experience, 18h – 31st January

• BOXPARK Shoreditch, 1st – 28th February

Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Fair March 2016

Battersea Art Fair, London October 2012

SLWA, Group Show, Bankside Gallery London May 2012
Art House, London April 2012
Battersea Art Fair, London October 2011
Untitled Art Fair, Chelsea, London June 2011
Battersea Art Fair, London October 2010
Canary wharf, Frontispiece Gallery, June 2010
SLWA, Bankside Gallery, London April 2010
Battersea Art Fair, London October 2009
Gibraltar, Fabs Farrington Gallery, Aug – Sept 2009
Fabs Farrington Gallery, Solo Show July 2009
Space Open Studios, London May 2009
Chelsea Art Fair, London April 2009
The Gallery-Alan Baxter & Asso...