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Many Projects

A brief, curated selection of other miscellaneous projects over the years. Click any image to open slideshow. Image list and video footage at bottom of page.

'Gridlock.' An installation by Méadhbh O'Connor and Dave Madigan. Mixed media on a tall, grid-like structure made with Dexion struts.
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‘Unknown Shores,’ scaffolding, laboratory equipment, wood, copper, pvc tubing and other materials. Configured to look like a ship-like structure. Large sculptural installation made by artist Méadhbh O'Connor. Shown at the O'Brien Centre for Science, University College Dublin in 2014, in the year of the building's inaugural opening.
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‘Moonflower.' Sculptural installation made by artist Meadhbh O'Connor. Slate and mixed media, 2013.
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‘Moonflower.' Detail of sculpture by Meadhbh O'Connor (2013).
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Installation shot from 'Biosphere,' the first solo exhibition by Irish artist Meadhbh O'Connor in 2011. Closeup of an installation made with living mushrooms in a gallery with a partial view of a larger installation in the background with laboratory glassware and living plants. At Monster Truck Gallery in 2011.
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Another view from the first solo exhibition by Irish visual artist Méadhbh O'Connor, 'Biosphere.' Laboratory glassware is suspended from the ceiling, along with living bindweed vines. A grid of laboratory glassware is laid out on the ground on glass panels.
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A closeup of living bindweed growing from one suspended laboratory glass to another. Propagated by gathering weeds from wasteland in Dublin and grown using hydroponics. From the solo exhibition 'Biosphere' by Méadhbh O'Connor in 2011.
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At the preview of the first solo exhibition by visual artist Méadhbh O'Connor in 2011. 'Biosphere,' held at Monster Truck Gallery in Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland. Detail of exhibition installation with guests at the preview.
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Detail of installation by Meadhbh O'Connor. Soil inside vacuum plastic pyramids leaves condensation on the surface.
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Site of experimental critique of work by artist Meadhbh O'Connor during her Master's degree at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford in 2020. Two projections show a photograph of a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope and a split screen grid of rudimentary computer-generated forms suggestive of atoms. In the foreground green moss and soil are in vacuum packed pyramids are arranged like a Sierpinski pyramid.
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Dave Madigan stands beside a large stacks of pyramids on a beach in Dublin in 2011. Making a large Sierpinski pyramid, from the joint project 'Power Structure' by Méadhbh O'Connor and Dave Madigan.
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Méadhbh O'Connor stands inside the completed Sierpinski pyramid which has LED lights on each connection point. Photographed at night on an empty beach in Dublin in 2011.
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'Power Structure' by Méadhbh O'Connor and Dave Madigan. Sierpinski pyramid sculpture with LED lights photographed in front of a decommissioned power station in Dublin in 2011.
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Collage of photos of a Sierpinski pyramid sculpture in front of various venues in Ireland, all related in some way to power. From the joint project 'Power Structure' by Dave Madigan and Méadhbh O'Connor in 2011 to 2013.
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Art installation titled 'Blackout' (2012) showing a room filled with spent ash from a power station. Multiple transmission gears stand in the ash or are suspended from the ceiling. From the overall joint project 'Power Structure' by Méadhbh O'Connor and Dave Madigan.
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Solarised image showing artist Méadhbh O'Connor observing her installation 'Blackout,' made with Dave Madigan as part of their project 'Power Structure' in 2012.
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Three wrought iron sculptures by Méadhbh O'Connor. 'King, Queen and Rook (Andromeda).' At the two-person exhibition 2039 with Emer O Boyle, Artbox, Dublin 2015.
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Untitled. Scientific 'still life' photograph by Méadhbh O'Connor. Salt crystals growing in a suspended beaker. A tube links to a small pile of coal with a single LED light inside. 2012.
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'Burnt Earth.' By Méadhbh O'Connor, 2013. Installation of a scorched tree root system standing on a bed of coal. An ambiguous pole and cable overhang the installation. A black and white photograph of a telecommunications mast made to look like a tree hangs on the wall.
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Closeup of the installation 'Burnt Earth' by Méadhbh O'Connor. Scorched tree root system on a bed of coal spread across the gallery. At the two-person exhibition 'powers and roots,' Pallas Projects, 2013.
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Untitled 'science still life' by Méadhbh O'Connor, 2012. Tubes feed into a bubbling, round bottom flask. The flask sits on a bed of coal.
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Composite image of the installation 'Burnt Earth' by Méadhbh O'Connor, with a satellite image of Ireland overlooking the scorched tree.
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Detail of installation 'Not worth your salt,' 2012. At the two-person exhibition 'Power Structure' with Dave Madigan. Salt crystals gown onto rags, pouring from suspended money bags.
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'Evergreen,' by Méadhbh O'Connor, 2013. Black and white photography of a telecommunications mast disguised as a tree.
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'Geo Strata,' a sculpture by Méadhbh O'Connor. Artist Dave Madigan poses with the work in front of the Poolbeg decommissioned power station in Dublin, Ireland. 2012.
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'Geo Strata' by Méadhbh O'Connor. 2012. Layers of soil, sand, rock, clay, paper, computer chips, other encased inside a glass tube in a tripod. Coal spreads at the base of the sculpture, which looks like a core drill.
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'Competitive Interactions (V1),' 2010. Sculpture by Méadhbh O'Connor. Propagated dandelions burst through a cement flower pot sealed with compacted asphalt and road markings.
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'Spectraphagia,' an installation by Méadhbh O'Connor in 2011. A beam of light passes through a suspended prism, throwing a spectrum into the middle of a circle of plants. Feeding tubes connect the plants to the spectrum of light.
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'Spectraphagia,' detail of an installation by Méadhbh O'Connor in 2011. A beam of light passes through a suspended prism, throwing a spectrum into the middle of a circle of plants. Feeding tubes connect the plants to the spectrum of light.
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Early biospheres by Méadhbh O'Connor, first conceived in 2010. See the project 'Biosystem' for more.
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A selection of drawings by Méadhbh O'Connor (2014). A drawing of a female statue holding up a globe with another drawing of crepuscular rays beaming through emissions emerging from an industrial plant. Both A3 and pencil on paper.
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A selection of drawings by Méadhbh O'Connor (2014). Drawings depicting various nautical objects and knots. All A3 and pencil on paper.
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A selection of drawings by Méadhbh O'Connor (2014). Industrial emissions, lenticular cloud, wind turbines, oil rig. All A3 and pencil on paper.
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Solarised, black and white photograph of untitled sculpture (metal grids, sphere). By Méadhbh O'Connor. 2019.
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'Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.' Installation of a lever: a large branch and balanced stones. By Méadhbh O'Connor, 2013. At the Highlanes Municipal Gallery, Ireland
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'Capriccio.' A sculpture by Méadhbh O'Connor, held together by the principle of tensegrity–opposing the forced of tension and compression to create a stable structure. Wood, violin string, violin pegs. 2015.
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'Stellar Music.' Graduate art project by Méadhbh O'Connor as a budding artist in 2009. A handmade, working astronomical sextant is fused into an imaginary musical instrument. Wood, brass, cello string and parts, cast iron.
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'Stellar Music.' (Detail) By Méadhbh O'Connor, 2009. A handmade, working astronomical sextant is fused into an imaginary musical instrument. Wood, brass, cello string and parts, cast iron. Photographed here under the stars.
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'Harmony' by méadhbh O'Connor. Part of her graduate work as a budding artist in 2009. Turned wooden spheres styled like an instrument are mounted to a wall and gently spotlighted, as if on stage.
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From left: Ciara King, Arts Officer, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; Prof Lorraine Hanlon, co-founder UCD Parity Studios; Méadhbh O'Connor, artist; Prof Andrew Deeks, President UCD; An Cathaoirleach, Cllr Cormac Devlin; Emer O Boyle, co-founder UCD Parity Studios; David Beattie, artist; Prof Joe Carthy, Principal, UCD Science. Photo: Peter Cavanagh, 2017
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Visual artist Méadhbh O'Connor with her class of undergraduate science students, University College Dublin 2015.
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‘Capriccio,’ 2015. 80 x 80 x 80cm, wood, violin pegs and string. 360 degree view. Filmed at Pallas Projects/Studios. The sculpture is held together using tensegrity or ‘floating compression.’ The solid wooden struts are held afloat by the tension of the strings. Filmed at Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin, Ireland.

Read an essay written by Méadhbh O’Connor in reference to ‘Capriccio,’ exhibited for the first time at the UCD Parity Studios (formerly ‘UCD Art in Science’) group exhibition Welcome Distrubances in The Lab Gallery, Dublin, 2015:

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Footage from the exhibition powerS + √ roots with Méadhbh O’Connor and Dave Madigan. It took place in Pallas Projects and Studios (PP/S) in Dublin, Ireland in 2013. We made sculptural installations loosely inspired by our interest in networks and energy systems, both natural and man-made. Part of our overall collaborative project, ‘Power Structure,’ 2011–2013.

Image List

1. Gridlock, metal, clay, seed. Collaborative sculpture with Dave Madigan. 2014.

2. Unknown Shores, scaffolding, laboratory equipment, wood, other. O’Brien Centre for Science, Dublin, 2014.

3. Moonflower, slate, mixed media. 2013.

4. As above.

5. Living button mushrooms and substrate. At the solo exhibition ‘Bioshere,’ 2011.

6. Scientific glassware, propagated bindweed. (at Biosphere, 2011)

7. Closeup. Bindweed grows from one glass to another. (at Biosphere, 2011)

8. Preview, first solo exhibition Biosphere, 2011.

9. Peat, sphagnum moss, vacuum wrapped. Oxford, 2020.

10. Installation (peat, spaghnum moss, vacuum plastic) and projections. Site of first poetry performance, University of Oxford. 2020.

11. Building Sierpinski pyramid, Dublin bay. 2012. Part of the collaborative project ‘Power Structure’ with Dave Madigan, 2011–2013.

12. Power Structure, electrical conduit, LEDs. 3.2m at apex. 2012. As above.

13. As above.

14. Power Structure, 2012. Photographed at multiple locations, Ireland including Anglo Irish Bank headquarters, ESB decommissioned power station, NAMA headquarters, RTE and Christchurch Cathedral. Collaborative project with Dave Madigan 2011– 2013

15. Blackout. Ash from peat burning power station, discarded transmission gears. With Dave Madigan, part of overall project ‘Power Structure’. Shown at the exhibition of the same title in 2012.

16. Untitled digitised image (Blackout).

17. Wrought iron – King, Queen and Rook (‘Andromeda’). 2015.

18. Science still life 1. Salt crystals, tubing, coal, LED. 2012.

19. Burnt Earth, coal, scorched root system. 2013.

20. As above.

21. Science still life 2. Laboratory glass, tubing, coal, LED. 2012.

22. Burnt Earth with satellite image.

23. Not worth your salt. Salt crystals, fabric, money bags, water, 2012.

24. Evergreen, photograph of telecommunications mast disguised as a tree, 2013.

25. Untitled (with Geo Strata). 2012.

26. Geo Strata, glass, metal, coal, soils, sand, paper, e-waste, other. 2012.

27. Propagated dandelions planted and sealed with asphalt. 2010.

28. Spectraphagia, plants, tubing, wood, prism, light. 2011.

29. As above.

30. Idea for Biosystem first conceived in 2010

31. Composite of drawings 1 (for Unknown Shores). A3. Pencil on paper. 2014.

32. Composite of drawings 2 (for Unknown Shores). A3. Pencil on paper. 2014.

33. Composite of drawings 3 (for Unknown Shores). A3. Pencil on paper. 2014.

34. Untitled installation. Wire grids, cord. Images solarized and pinched. 2019.

35. Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. Lever – wood, stone. 2013.

36. Capriccio. Sculpture held together by tensegrity. Wood, violin string. 2015.

37. Stellar music, sextant with string, musical notation. Graduate project. 2009.

38. As above.

39. Harmony, turned wood, violin pegs and strings. Graduate project. 2009.

40. From left: Ciara King, Arts Officer, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; Prof Lorraine Hanlon, co-founder UCD Parity Studios; Méadhbh O’Connor, artist; Prof Andrew Deeks, President University College Dublin; An Cathaoirleach, Cllr Cormac Devlin; Emer O Boyle, co-founder UCD Parity Studios; David Beattie, artist; Prof Joe Carthy, Principal, UCD Science. Photo: Peter Cavanagh, 2017.

41. M.O’Connor (left) and class of undergraduate science students, University College Dublin, 2015.