LOMBARD ST ART AND ARCHITECTURAL STUDIOS,
11 Lombard St, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
email: zebedee_obrien@yahoo.co.uk
Professional Affiliations
Chair of Bbeyond
Administrator of SOURCE the Photographic Review
Archivist of the Dorn Mc Grath Jr Slide Collection for the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, 2012.
Solo Shows
‘Kartonowe Miasto’, interactive installation, the 4th No Women No Art Festival, Poznan, Poland, 2011.
‘Attic Sandcastles’, interactive multi media installation, PS2, Belfast, 2011.
‘Everything Must Go’, interactive installation, Exchange Gallery, Dublin, 2010.
‘The Drawing Factory’, interactive open studio, Exchange Gallery, Dublin, 2010.
Two Person Shows
‘Cardboard Cities’, adventure playground collaboration with Caragh O’Donnell, in association with the Children’s Festival, PS2 and SPACE, Out of PLACE, Belfast, 2010.
‘Plunder’, open studio with Ben Craig, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 2008.
Selected Groups Shows
‘Lumen8Anacostia’, public interventions and interactive installation, ARCH, Washington DC, USA, April 2012.
‘OH!’, interventions and sculpture, SÍM, Reykjavík, Iceland, September 2011.
‘Multiples’, alternative souvenirs in association with Catalyst Arts, Dublin Contemporary 2011.
‘Sterile Environment’, interactive sculpture, Catalyst Arts & PLACE, Belfast, 2011.
‘INFLUX’, alternative art fair, Occupy Space, Limerick, 2011.
‘Procedure’, installaction for site responsive group show, The Station Project in association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, 2011.
‘Flüstertüten’, interactive sculpture, ‘Arrivals’, curated by Ciara Hickey, the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, 2010.
‘By Appointment’, group show curated by David Gryn, Close But No Cigar, ICA, London, 2010.
‘Festive Flashers’, Glisten, group show and interactive hospitality, GT Gallery, Belfast, 2009.
‘City-supplements’, an alternative urban survey, PS2, Belfast, 2009.
‘Edible City’, edible installaction, PS2, Belfast, 2009.
‘Bowerbird and Builders Playground’ , Outside ISEA, Belfast, 2009.
‘Sapphire Highway’, exhibited documentation, The Lab, Dublin, 2009.
‘Home is Where the Art is’, group show, Simon Community, Blackrock, Dublin, 2008.
‘Alleyway Bargain Hunt’, Spart Winter Games, Spart Action Group, Belfast, 2008.
‘Scratch’, curated by Helen Steele, CHQ Building IFSC, Dublin, 2007.
Performance Festivals
‘Sailing By Dogs’, public performance, On-site & Off-site Festival, SVA, Stroud, England, 2011.
‘Alumni: Masters and Disciples’ site-specific touring performance art and education symposium curated by Alexander Del Re, Concepción & Vapoureso, (Chile) and Instituto Escuela National de Bellas Artes, Montevideo (Uruguay), 2010.
‘You Can Be a Diamond’, intervention in the Bytown Museum, Crossings curated by Christine Conley, Canada, 2010.
‘Public Park: Parc Public’, intervention in the Markets around Ottawa, Crossings curated by Christine Conley, Canada, 2010.
‘Sunday’, action, curated by Bbeyond, PS2 and Belfast City Council, Belfast, 2010.
‘A Spotter’s Guide to Dirt Birds’, 10th OPEN Art International Performance Festival, OPEN Art, Beijing, China. Travel funded by the British Council, 2009.
‘Big Jam’, group action with Dublin Performance Collective in Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 2008.
‘SCRABB’, simultaneous performances, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, 2008.
‘I AM’, Polish Performance Art Exchange, curated by Bbeyond, Stranmillis College, Belfast, 2008.
‘Lower Garfield Street’, Bbeyond group action, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, Belfast, 2008.
‘Seven People and a Table’, Bbeyond group action with special guest Jacques von Poppel, FIX 07, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, 2007.
‘High Tea at the High Court’, Playgroup, Waterfront Hall and High Courts, Belfast, 2007.
‘Bringing Back the Warmth’, Playgroup action as guests of University of Ulster MA Art in Public and Catalyst Arts, FIX 07, Ormeau Road, Belfast, 2007.
‘Salt Drawing’, Catflaps: Cardiff Art in Time, Cardiff, 2007.
‘Approach’, with Boris Nieslony, Bbeyond and INTERFACE as part of ‘I Confess that I was There’, New Lodge, 2006.
Residencies
‘ARCH’, ACNI & Honfleur Gallery Residency Program, Washington DC, USA, February-May 2012.
‘MPRA’, International Residency Program, Poznan, Poland, November 2011.
‘Sím’, International Residency Program, Reykjavík, Iceland, September 2011
‘Crossings’, International Performance Art Exchange/2-part Residency, curated by Christine Conley and Bbeyond, in association with Platform Arts, Belfast and SAW Gallery, Ottawa.
‘DAS’, Digital Arts Residency, Queens Street Studios, Belfast, October 2009 – January 2010.
‘Sapphire Highway’, The Good Hatchery, Offaly, September 2008.
‘C.S.R.’, The Centre of Suburban Research Residency, Spart Action, Belfast, December 2007.
‘ARES 07’,International Performance Art Residency Exchange Northern Ireland & Transylvanian Region, Omagh District Council and Catalyst Arts, June-July 2007.
Curatorial Projects
Organiser and co-curator of Residence in collaboration with Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell. Residence is a rolling program of artist residencies, exhibitions and outreach work in domestic spaces. Between 2008-2009 these spaces were provided by SHAC Housing Association.
www.residenceni.wordpress.com
Commissions
‘Multiples’, unconventional souvenirs project with Catalyst Arts exhibited in Dublin Contemporary, Influx, GT Gallery and PS2 in association with the British Council, 2011.
‘Animation’, site-specific live drawing event for Culture Night, Belfast, 2010.
‘Untitled’, Therapeutic Floor Mural, EB Sensory Integration Consultancy, Co. Down, N. Ireland, 2009-10.
‘Untitled’, Floor Mural, The Cooperage, Belvedere, New Jersey, USA, 2006.
Selected Workshops
‘Kartonowe Miasto’, a series of city building workshops for architecture students, families and children from vulnerable backgrounds, School of Form, Poland, 2011.
‘The Landscape of the City’, city building workshop for children, inspiration came from the works from the collection, National Museum, Poznan, Poland, 2011.
‘Sculptural Journey’, an outdoor sculptural intervention workshop, Ormeau Baths Gallery and PLACE, Belfast, 2010.
‘Cardboard Cities’, a series of city planning workshops with St Mary’s Primary School, Belfast, 2010.
‘Unbuilt’, a series of architectural workshops with draw in for the GT Gallery, Belfast, 2009.
‘Guerrilla Gardening: a 4 day marathon’, with Colm Clarke, in association with Brown&Bri, PLACE, Belfast, 2009.
‘City-supplements’, workshop with SHAC tenants, PS2, Belfast, 2009.
‘Collaboration’, collaborative draw in workshop, GT Gallery with Creative Exchange, Belfast, 2009.
‘Make City Make’, with Caragh O’Donnell, PS2, Belfast, 2008.
‘The Big Draw’ in association with Caragh O’Donnell, Array Studios, the Campaign for Drawing, Catalyst Arts, and SHAC Housing Association, various locations around Belfast, 2008.
‘Mini May Fest’, GT Gallery, Belfast, 2008.
‘Draw Draw Draw’, with Doris Rohr and University of Ulster, 2008.
‘The Big Draw’, Ormeau Baths Gallery, 2007.
‘Masks’, Ormeau Baths Gallery, 2002.
Lecturing
History of Art Department, University of Poznan, 2011; Arsenal Gallery, Poznan, Poland, 2011; Instituto Escuela National de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2010; University of Concepción, Chile, 2010; ‘Creating Alternative Spaces’, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, 2010; Galerie SAW, Ottawa, Canada, 2010; Digital Arts Studios, Belfast, 2009; University of Ulster, Belfast, 2008; MA Art in Public symposium, Alfredo Jaar and INTERFACE, at the University of Ulster, 2008.
Awards
Her work has been supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the British Council, Culture Ireland and the Networking Artist Networks (NAN Bursary). Awarded the Dean’s Prize in 2007 for the highest First Class Honours in her graduating year.
Publications and reviews
‘Dissipated and Isolated Neighbourhoods’, review of ‘Sterile Environment’ by Angela Darby, Aesthetica Online, Summer 2011.
‘Bridging Contexts’, review of ‘Crossings’ by Julie Fiala, FUSE, Vol 34 No. 2, 2011.
‘PANI: I AM’, edited by Brian Patterson, review by Dr Slavka Sverakova, Bbeyond annual publication, N.Ireland, 2010.
‘I AM’, reviewed by Dr Justin Mc Keown, CIRCA 127, Spring Issue 2009.
‘Actually Living’ Review by Sara Baume of ‘the Big Jam’ with Bbeyond and Dublin Artist Collective, page 19, Visual Artists’ News Sheet, May-June 2009.
‘Residence: February 2008-September 2009’, by Sinéad and Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell, in association with SHAC Housing, Belfast, N.Ireland, 2009.
‘City-Supplements: an alternative urban survey’, PS2, Belfast, N.Ireland, 2009.
‘Sapphire Highway’, a Good Hatchery Project, Co. Offaly, Republic of Ireland, 2009.
‘The Cat Show Cardiff Art in Time 2007’, foreword by André Stitt, trace: samizdat press, Cardiff, Wales, 2007.
Education
BA First Class Hons Fine and Applied Art, University of Ulster, Belfast, 2003-2007.
Participated in the Business Education Initiative supported by the British Council. Studied Marketing, Printmaking and Philosophy, Centenary College, New Jersey, USA, 2005-2006.
