Patrick O'Sullivan

Born; 1966
Studied painting at Norwich school of art and University of Alberta, Canada. Have lived and worked in london for 18 years, working out of a number of different studios but have now built my own studio and have worked there for the last two years.

My work follows a non-figurative approach. I am concerned with the creation of an abstract, shallow space that invests in the literal properties of paint and surface to create an object separate and distinct in character and revealing of its structure.
For the past fifteen years this has meant creating systems or patterns of work that lead to a painting. Usually this involves the selection of two or three types of gesture or ways of applying paint set against a pictorial structure that is austere and uncompromising in order to develop an underlying tension. The manner of paint application has evolved in my work to choosing the simplest, sometimes crudest, forms of manipulation. I want the various actions to be no more complicated than applying paint to a wall or to mimic an act apparently without aesthetic concern. The end result though, must transcend this process. For me to consider the work a success, the painting must have a character and quality that is ...

BA Hons in Painting at Norwich school of art 1985 to 88.
Master of Visual Arts at the University of Alberta 1989 to 1991.

Past one-person shows include the boxfield gallery, 1992 & 2001, Cable st gallery 2001, Oxford house Gallery 2001, The 491 Gallery 2009,

Numorous group shows including:the Royal overseas league 1999, M-art Gallery 2005.,

Future Shows: Group show "cognitive congestion" at the Nadiya Tokarska Gallery from the 2nd of September 2011. One-person show at The Boxfield gallery Stevenage from January the 7th 2012.