Martina O'Brien
  • Martina O'Brien
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  • these hollow-earth fantasies
  • Legacy Plots
  • of ephemeral measure


Essays (selected):
2019        small change: A Conversation with Martina O’Brien, Michael Hill, Every Single Morning publication
                 Michael Hill small change
2019        Declare your atoms not your bits! Martina O’Brien’s Quotidian, Francis Halsall, Every Single Morning publication
                 Francis Halsall Declare your atoms not your bits!
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2019        Citizen-Scientists and Centres of Calculation, Karen E. Till, Every Single Morning publication
                 Karen E. Till Citizen-Scientists and Centres of Calculation
2018        I am nothing other than the other things, essay in response to the exhibition At Some Distance in the Direction  Indicated, Rowan Lear, Publication rowanlear.org/filter/time/I-am-nothing-other-than-the-other-things
2015        Fishing for the River: An Dothra Guardians in Martina O’Brien’s Casting Territory, Karen E. Till, Casting Territory Publication maynoothgeography.wordpress.com/2015/12/11/fishing-for-the-river-an-dothra-guardians-in-martina-obriens-casting-territory/
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Reviews, Publications, Articles, Journals and Catalogues (selected) : 
2020        Article, Visual Artists’ New Sheet, Joanne Laws, Rapid Research, Sept/Oct issue
2019        Publication, Every Single Morning, Artist Book 
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2019        Publication, TACTICAL MAGIC, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts  
2018        Review, The Irish Times, Aidan Dunne, Affirming the beauty of a supercomputer
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/affirming-the-beauty-of-a-supercomputer-1.3459616
2018        Review, The Irish Times, Aidan Dunne https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/kenneth-o-halloran-s-modern-ruins-alice-maher-s-woodcuts-and-watercolours-the-best-art-shows-this-week-1.3455520
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2018        Article, The Irish Independent, Celine Naughton, The Day the Rains Came www.independent.ie/life/the-day-the-rains-came-meet-kildares-army-of-volunteer-weather-observers-37415886.html
2018       Publication, This Is Not an Atlas – This Is a Global Collection of Counter-Cartographies, edited by kollektiv orangotango+, Berlin notanatlas.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Knitted-Flood-Wall.pdf  
notanatlas.org/book/
2016        Publication, The Headless City, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
2016        Reflecting on ‘CASTING TERRITORY’ by Martina O’Brien and The Dodder Anglers – The Art in and of everyday life and place maynoothgeography.wordpress.com/2016/01/15/reflecting-on-casting-territory-by-martina-obrien-and-the-dodder-anglers-the-art-in-and-of-everyday-life-and-place/
2015       Journal, Natural Hazards Observer, Disasters and Social Memory, Elke Weesjes, A Knitted Floodwall hazards.colorado.edu/article/a-knitted-flood-wall-visual-artist-martina-o-brien-1
2015     Continuum, Dr. Matthew Jebb, Draiocht www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XRGLXMWDOg&index=56&list=UUTtkTb28ywej9e9f3mPf1-w
2015      Review, Continuum Exhibition, Des Kenny, Draiocht
2012     Article, The Irish Times, Aine McMahon, Wonder Wall: Close-Knit community marks Dodder Flooding
www.irishtimes.com/news/close-knit-community-marks-dodder-flooding-1.555705









  • Martina O'Brien
  • Projects
  • Texts, Reviews, Publications
  • CV
  • these hollow-earth fantasies
  • Legacy Plots
  • of ephemeral measure