I am a Belfast artist who uses play to question the impact of habits and compliance on our capacity to create new responses. Through play I investigate how our surroundings shape how we experience, explore, investigate, manipulate and think. My work is generated by a direct response to and observations from my surroundings and their social contexts. This kaleidoscopic practice includes interactive installations; collaborations; drawing; performance and curating. Since 2007 I have participated in artist exchanges in Canada, Chile, China, Iceland, Ireland and Uruguay. I am currently exploring what gets brought to the surface and swept under the carpet during regeneration. I can be encountered with playmates or alone, plundering the streets, making playful interventions in search of a beach under the pavement.
Contact: zebedee_obrien@yahoo.co.uk
