S2001, 2000

Cian O’Neill is an Irish painter, writer and musician and graduate of Chelsea College of Arts School of Painting based in Hackney Wick, London. O’Neill’s artistic practice is focused on oil painting and work on paper in pencil and inks, with anatomy, botany and quasi- structural or architectural form fused in series of works which cohere thematically, whilst remaining specific onto themselves. His development was influenced by various painters running the range from photo- to surrealist and the formal qualities of the work place it somewhere close to painterly tradition but not quite of it: they have their own [il-]logic, and inhabit their own unique space.