Aaron O'Brien

high degree of the work I produce is a reaction against how we are living in a post industrialised world in relation to Baudrillards hyper reality theories , like the acceptance of the war on terror, the war on the enviroment, the abstraction of most plants and animals from our natural enviroment; and the exceptance of models and simulations in there replacement. The world as we Know it today is dramatically different compared to what we knew of it a hundred years ago, people have become addicted and complacent of eveyday things like cars, ipods, coca-cola and they have replaced the natural products of earth with the unatural human invention, now as the simulacra. Not to say some things are okay as long as they have a limited impact on the natural enviroment but unfortunatly most people live beyond there means in west in a decadent society. Therefor I try to approach these issue's from one man's point of view, that is informed from many source's, (books,journals, internet, popuarl culture, traveling, conversation, magazines, music, photography, phillosophy and my own experience's. Mainly in the past I have represnted these ideas, issue's in oil paintings and drawings in a surrealist style. more reacently my style has change to a se...

Diploma of Visual Arts Victoria University,2007 2008
Bachalor of Fine Arts, at Victorian collage of the arts, 2009 - 2011