SO Fine Art Editions are delighted to host Full Turn, an exciting two person exhibition of new works by Joby Hickey and Shane O’Driscoll. Both these creative individuals are defying creative constraints and are redefining and reshaping the contemporary art scene.
Joby Hickey is a visual artist based in Dublin. Apprenticed to his father, the painter and etcher Patrick Hickey he lived in Dun Laoghaire and studied Fine Art in IADT. Since 2009, Hickey has had a parallel research practice into analogue photographic techniques and has developed a unique set of skills. He builds his own cameras from found materials and recycled lenses, produces hand made negative plates and uses analogue production techniques.
One such technique Hickey has perfected on is the photographic glass plate process, which requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized using silver salts, exposed and developed within a 15 minute time span, thus requiring a portable darkroom. The image is black and white once developed, and Hickey adds something unique in that he also colourises the image on the glass. For this show, he has taken images of Moons, astronauts and skies, looking up and outside of our day to day reality.
Shane O’Driscoll is an Irish printmaker and visual artist from Cork. His medium is primarily screen prints although he is constantly developing his work and employs collage and aluminium. In producing this body of work, which features gold linear curves, O’Driscoll was mindful of Hickey’s photographs of planets and moons. In 2019 his work was acquired by The National Gallery of Ireland as part of their permanent collection.
O’Driscoll’s hand pulled silkscreens are both compelling and upbeat. He combines vibrant colour blocks, with curvilinear shapes balanced with white space between, seemingly empty yet wonderfully intensifying the work as a whole. As he comments : “My prints are often unique, the element of chance and intuition is key when making them. There is rarely a final composition in mind when starting as I enjoy playing with colour and shape to reach the final image”
Click on the thumbnails below to see larger images of the works.
Joby Hickey – Sandymount Wave, photographic glass plate, 44h x 45w cm, SOLD.
Joby Hickey – Blue Moons, photographic glass plate,45.5h x 38w cm, €500 framed
Joby Hickey – Cloud bed moonlight, Archival pigment print, 60h x 79w cm, edition of 12, €550 unframed, €700 framed (SOLD) unframed copies available
Joby Hickey, Cosmonaut, photographic glass plate, 37h x 46w cm, €650 framed
Joby Hickey – Clouds I, Archival pigment print, 60h x 79w cm, edition of 12, €550 unframed, €700 framed
Joby Hickey, Jupiter i, photographic glass plate, 38h x 38 w cm, €650 framed
Joby Hickey, Neptune, photographic glass plate, 36h x 36w cm, €500 framed
Joby Hickey, Phases, photographic glass plate, 45h x 30w cm, €500 framed
Joby Hickey – Green Rings Saturn, photographic glass plate, 44h x 46w cm, €650 framed
Joby Hickey – Poolbeg Space, photographic glass plate, 32.5h x 45w cm, SOLD.
Joby Hickey – Saturn Detail II, photographic glass plate, 45h x 38w cm, €650 framed
Joby Hickey – Saturn Detail I, photographic glass plate, 45h x 38w cm, €650 framed
Joby Hickey – Jupiter II, photographic glass plate, 44h x 49w cm, €650 framed
Joby Hickey – Saturn, photographic glass plate, 30.5h x 31.5w cm, €500 framed
Shane O’Driscoll – Right Down The Line, Screen Print, 80h x 60w cm, Edition of 2, €530 unframed, €755 Framed. SOLD OUT
Shane O’Driscoll – Work my Mind (blue), Mono Print, 1/1, 70h x 70w cm, €760 framed SOLD.
Shane O’Driscoll – Align with Time, Screen Print, 70h x 62w cm, Edition of 3, €450 unframed,SOLD OUT.
Shane O’Driscoll – Breathe and Breathe Easy, Screen Print, 50h x 50w cm, Edition of 3, €380 unframed, €545 framed
Shane O’Driscoll – Celestial Assembly, Screen Print, 57h x 50w cm, Edition of 2, €380 unframed, SOLD OUT
Shane O’Driscoll – G.V.O 3 (good vibes only III), Screen Print, 30h x 30w cm, Edition of 15, €180 unframed, SOLD OUT.
Shane O’Driscoll – Hold Up, Screen Print, 50h x 50w cm, Edition of 2, €380 unframed, €545 framed
Shane O’Driscoll – No Giving Up, Mono Print, 70h x 50w cm, unique, SOLD.
Shane O’Driscoll – Raise Your Hands If You’re With Me (Purple), Screen Print, 70h x 50w cm, Edition of 40, €390 unframed, SOLD OUT
Shane O’Driscoll – Raise Your Hands If You’re With Me (Pink), Screen Print, 70h x 50w cm, Edition of 40, SOLD OUT
Shane O’Driscoll – Revival, Screen Print, 40h x 40w cm, Edition of 3, €290 unframed, SOLD OUT.
Shane O’Driscoll – See Yourself, Mono Print, 40h x 35w cm, 1/1 SOLD
Shane O’Driscoll – , Screen Print, Striker, Striker, 40h x 40w cm, Edition of 5 , €330 unframed, (SOLD)
Shane O’Driscoll – The Mass of Meaning, Screen Print, 50h x 50w cm, Edition of 2, €380 unframed, €545 framed
Shane O’Driscoll – Where You Stop For A Minute, Mono Print, 40h x 35w cm, 1/1, €330 unframed, SOLD.
Shane O’Driscoll – Work My Mind (pink) 70h x 70w cm, Ed of 2, SOLD.
