Chris O’Brien’s diverse artistic practice spans painting, printmaking, sculpture, moving image, and zines. His work focuses on creating alternate realities and humorous characters, often staging them in local dilapidated and abandoned houses. His fictional stories include versions of himself and his friends, who are assigned roles by the artist as narrator. Renowned for his soft sculptures, O’Brien crafts detailed handsewn quilts and stuffed fabric representations of houses, vehicles and other domestic objects. Through his prolific practice, he reimagines functional structures into playful, imaginative sculptures.
