Past Residents
Past Resident2017: Canada Council for the Arts
Jérôme Havre
Jérôme Havre’s multidisciplinary practice concentrates on issues of identity, communities and territories through an investigation of the political and social aspects of life. Havre uses a myriad of tools and methods to make tangible the conditions of identity within situations of social transformation.
Jérôme Havre studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and currently lives and works in Toronto. He has exhibited in many institutions in Europe, Africa and North America. Recent shows include Talking Back, Otherwise, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto; Paradis: La fabrique de l’image, espace d’art contemporain 14°N 61°W, Martinique; Land Marks, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario; Liminal (Necessity and accident), The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Ontario; Reiteration, Art Gallery of Ontario; Poetry of Geopolitics, Koffler Gallery, Ontario. He has been awarded grants from various Canadian arts councils.
Jérôme Havre, Magnifique Isolation, 2009, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
Jérôme Havre, Six Degrees of Separation, 2014, Chalk and mixed media, Dimensions variable.
Jérôme Havre, Necessite et Accident (Liminal), 2016, Mixed media, Dimensions variable.
Jérôme Havre, Untitled, 2016, Photography, Dimensions variable.
Residents from Canada
Past Resident2017: The Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund
Liam O’Brien
Liam O’Brien’s practice explores the ambiguity of freedom and construction of individuality under late capitalism. Using personal experience, theoretical texts, and intuition, O’Brien interrogates the influence of social, political, and religious ideologies in shaping individual hierarchies of value. Usually presented as single-channel videos, O’Brien’s work oscillates between performance documentation and more elaborate, pseudo cinematic constructions. Themes of futility and absurdity are recurrent in his works, which contemplate a broad range of subjects including employment, drug use, mortality, technology, and intimacy.
Liam O’Brien (born 1987, Australia) lives and works in Melbourne. O’Brien graduated from the Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Photography and First Class Honors in 2010. In 2013, O’Brien undertook a residency at 501 Artspace, Chongqing, China, completed a commission for Artbank’s Performutations video series, and was named the recipient of the Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award. Recent solo exhibitions include Cold Comforts, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, and Selected Works, Canberra Contemporary Art Space. Group exhibitions include NEW16, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Video Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary; and GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. O’Brien is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney.
Liam O’Brien, Futility #1 (detail), 2009, Archival pigment print, 205/16 × 513/16 in. (51.56 × 130.05 cm).
Liam O’Brien, Domestication, 2014, High definition single-channel video, 10:15 min.
Liam O’Brien, I'm Too Drunk To Tell You, 2011, High definition single-channel video, 10 min.
Liam O’Brien, Possessions, 2016, High definition single-channel video, 14:21 min.
Residents from Australia
Past Resident2017: The Dr. K. David G. Edwards & Margery Edwards Charitable Giving Fund
Liam O'Brien
Liam O’Brien’s practice explores the ambiguity of freedom and construction of individuality under late capitalism. Using personal experience, theoretical texts, and intuition, O’Brien interrogates the influence of social, political, and religious ideologies in shaping individual hierarchies of value. Usually presented as single-channel videos, O’Brien’s work oscillates between performance documentation and more elaborate, pseudo cinematic constructions. Themes of futility and absurdity are recurrent in his works, which contemplate a broad range of subjects including employment, drug use, mortality, technology, and intimacy.
Liam O’Brien (born 1987, Australia) lives and works in Melbourne. O’Brien graduated from the Queensland College of Art with a Bachelor of Photography and First Class Honors in 2010. In 2013, O’Brien undertook a residency at 501 Artspace, Chongqing, China, completed a commission for Artbank’s Performutations video series, and was named the recipient of the Art & Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award. Recent solo exhibitions include Cold Comforts, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, and Selected Works, Canberra Contemporary Art Space. Group exhibitions include NEW16, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Video Contemporary, Sydney Contemporary; and GOMA Q: Contemporary Queensland Art, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. O’Brien is represented by Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney.
Events & Exhibitions
Spring Open Studios 2017
April 21–April 22, 2017
Liam O'Brien, Futility #1 (detail), 2009, Archival pigment print, 205/16 × 513/16 in. (51.56 × 130.05 cm).
Liam O'Brien, Domestication, 2014, High definition single-channel video, 10:15 min.
Liam O'Brien, I'm Too Drunk To Tell You, 2011, High definition single-channel video, 10 min.
Liam O'Brien, Possessions, 2016, High definition single-channel video, 14:21 min.