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Unframed impressions are available, priced at $1,750.00. Please contact the gallery for more information on purchasing. 

Dan O’Neill was born in Montreal, Quebec. He received a Double Major with Honors in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking from OCAD University, Toronto, in 1993; a BFA in Studio Art from NSCAD University, Halifax, in 1994; and an MFA in Studio and Media Art from NSCAD University in 1999. In 2011, he earned the Creative Nova Scotia Leadership Council Established Artist Recognition Award and in 2014 was awarded the Open Studio National Printmaking Award, third place. He works primarily in lithography, although he continues working on his interdisciplinary practice that includes drawing, painting, writing and collage. He lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he has been teaching at NSCAD University as a Regular Part-Time Faculty member for over 20 years. 

Artist Statement

What I follow “in practice” involves engaging freely in “fits and starts” as this is how I move about conceptually. This is a provocative experience which at the core, is focused on self-restoration in perpetuity. Collage is a central function of how I arrange ideas, used as a method in forming “entirely new wholes”*. Analogue reproduction technologies offers the quiet, isolated work of cutting, sizing and pasting images together, and it is this activity which motivates the pursuit of what I think I practice, while providing a balance for excavating the intangible to use for what I do, in practice.  *Jeanette Winterson – Art Objects – Imagination and Reality