A brief, curated selection of other miscellaneous projects over the years. Click any image to open slideshow. Image list at bottom of page.
Image List
1. Gridlock, metal, clay, seed. 2014.
2. Unknown Shores, scaffolding, laboratory equipment, wood, other. 2014.
3. Moonflower, slate, mixed media. 2013.
4. As above.
5. Living button mushrooms and substrate. 2011.
6. Scientific glassware, propagated bindweed. 2011.
7. Closeup. Bindweed grows from one glass to another.
8. Preview, first solo exhibition Biosphere, 2011.
9. Peat, sphagnum moss, vacuum wrapped. 2020.
10. Installation (peat, spaghnum moss, vacuum plastic) and projections. Site of first poetry performance, Oxford. 2020.
11. Building Sierpinski pyramid, Dublin bay. 2012.
12. Power Structure, electrical conduit, LEDs. 3.2m at apex. 2012.
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.
15. Blackout. Ash from peat burning power station, discarded transmission gears. With Dave Madigan. 2012.
16. Untitled digitised image (Blackout).
17. Wrought iron – King, Queen and Rook (‘Andromeda’). 2016.
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.