Exhibitions – Noël O'Callaghan

Fully Armed (Drone Days 3) by Noël O´Callaghan, watercolour and graphite on paper, 30 x 20cm.

Changelings in Nighttown at the Galerie Michaela Helfrich, Berlin

August 15, 2024June 5, 2024

The exhibition “Changelings in Nighttown” will take place from the 12.06 to the 26.06. 2024. The painting and drawings in the show will be from my “Changelings” series. These works were begun during the lockdown when the absence of my regular life-drawing group, I began to alter existing life- drawings by allowing them to freely … Read more

This work came about during the lock-down. As all life-drawing sessions were suspended, I began sorting through my recent drawings, rejecting some and enlarging on others – I let the poses suggest something. In this 3-minute pose the model is sitting on a stool with her left leg and arm upraised. I find stool poses uninspiring and felt that the energy of the gesture spoke of something more dramatic. First the horse appeared to me…maybe Lady Godiva? Then the wing…Pegasus, perhaps? As the title came to me, I realised the work could also be a metaphor for the precarious life of the artist. In my interpretation, the rider/sprite, naked and vulnerable, with the fragility of only one wing, is borne along astride the Green Mare of the imagination.

On a wing and a Green Mare shortlisted for the Janet Mularney Prize at the Highlanes Open Submission Exhibition 2020

July 8, 2020

Sketch the Moment III exhibition

March 13, 2019March 2, 2019

I´m taking part in this show – very pleased to have my image chosen for the flyer! Sketch the Moment III Exhibition, 1st – 13th March Galerie Zeitzone, Adalbertstr 79, 10997 Berlin