Acquiring Nature
Cast Bronze Objects.
Exhibitions – included in or part of the following:
2011 Materiality, Art Gallery, Bloomfield Centre, St Francis XavierUniversity, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
2008 On A Pedestal and Off The Wall, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A
2007 Re-collect, Gallery at Harbourfront Centre York Quay
2007 Emerging Grounds, VAC of Clarington, OntYork Quay, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Shape Shifters, RedHead Gallery Toronto
“…by casting them directly. Her long table of these castings ( Acquiring Nature) is a sumptuous display of piles and distributions of cast sea urchins, thorns, twigs, seal vertebrae, shards of bark, seed pods and other outcroppings of sculpturally interesting shapes that, 100 years ago, would have found their way into any civilized Victorian’s Cabinet of Wonders. Here, they are offered as commodities — or, rather, as allusions to commodification, since it is presumably O’Callaghan’s point that we all have to make important decisions about what we want from nature, and why.”
Gary Michael Dault
Walking the Line by Gary Michael Dault
Nature taking shape by Monika Burman, MAG October 2006