Eve O’Connor is an artist primarily working with sculpture, studying Fine Art and History of Art at the University of Leeds. She spent her third studying sculpture at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest. Her practice currently explores the boundaries between architecture and sculpture.  

Eve’s sculptural practise has previously concerned materialising unseeable facets of our surroundings through a sculptural medium. She has also used her sculptural practice to draw attention to neglected aspects of our architectural space through intervention, including sound construction and the inner workings of an architectural structure.

‘Constructing an object and placing it in a space will always change what was there, to begin with, and how such a space is experienced. Sculpture by its nature exists as a living body, allowing the artist to bring the context they are addressing through the work to the viewer’s physical space’

This year in her artistic practise Eve has taken inspiration from guerilla architecture constructed for the intentions of protest and political interventions in public spaces. For this she has also explored screen-printing, a medium with extensive politically charged history. Her sculptural work’s existence in the gallery is constructed to serve as a reminder of the political potential of objects in space.

The work is often constructed from burnt pieces of wood, halted in the process of its disintegration. This aspect to her practice delves in to themes of decay and philosopher George Bataille’s notion of baseless materialism, representing the de-construction of our surroundings in artistic practise.

Instagram: @eveoconnor.art