Shaughn O'Brien Sculpture
Photograph printed on glass 2025
78 x 104 cm
Edition of 20
Challenges for Man
Plaster of Paris 2019/2023 finalised
45 x 42 x 24 cm
Unique
studio@the ox barn 2023
about
Sculpture Career
10 years overlapped with first career of 50 years
Graduated Heatherley School of Fine Art Diploma Figurative Sculpture 2022
Exhibit & sell, particularly limited edition bronzes
Inspiration, materials, techniques & output very varied - positive diversity
Some planned ahead, others the material decides - the latter is most stimulating
'Mistakes are the portals of discovery' James Joyce
Exhibitions
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2020 ‘The Awakening of Hypnos'
Medical Art Society Exhibitions Annually [Royal Society of Medicine (MAS)] - 1st Prize for 3D work 2021 & 2024
Chelsea Arts Society - Old Town Hall
Heatherley School of Fine Art
Hampstead School of Art [MAS]
Shropshire including The Granary Gallery Weston Park Estate
Open Studio for Shenfest June 2023 and 2025
Brompton Cemetery Chapel Exhibition, Chelsea October 2023
Chelsea Arts Club
Art Lecture
The Influence of Bohemian Paris' on my own Sculpture presented to The Lunatics' Club at Royal Society of Medicine 2022
My First Ever Relationship .......with AI presented to The Lunatics' Club at Royal Society of Medicine 2025
Installation Exhibited
B'ar Trouvé Parisian Bohemian Jazz Bar and Gallery
Surreal walkthrough installation experience
Exhibited at The Heatherley School of Fine Art 2022
Reconstructed for Shenfest in my Open Studio@The Ox Barn, Shenington, Oxfordshire June 2023
First career very satisfying
Medicine Professor & Consultant Obstetrician/Gynaecologist - detail not applicable here
This website
I do hope you enjoy this website which aims to demonstrate the breadth & diversity of work
It begins with my first ever, now sold, bronze sculpture
Email pmsob@me.com
Horse at Water
Bronze on granite unique sold
twins
bronze on oak base
Edition of 1/1 sold + 1 AP
Metal Base
Base metal
Resolution
Bronze on Limetone on Oak
Torso of a Young Woman
Stone carving
La Finta Giardiniera
Bronze 2/9 available
Most recent book
available from
watersones.com Amazon.co.uk Blackwells.co.uk whsmith.co.uk
Written for men to enable them to understand their partner's hormones and empathise more readily
Cover uses my limited edition bronze La Finta Giardiniera
earlier books
supported by my stone-carved horses
most available from www.amazon.co.uk
Winter neurone
Soft Iron [plus rust & plus snow]
Dance floor
element of B'ar trouvé installation
multiple materials
Pegasus. Pregnancy. Alberto & Annette, Ottilia. plaster of Paris. wax. jesmomite. wax.
for bronze casting
Detail from portrait
of
huw
Clay
Confident Composure
Zimbabwean Stone
iPhone photos
drawings
Not Alone
Charcoal drawing
Limited edition bronzes
Many sold but several editions available
All sculptural bronze limited editions will be subject to a 12 week delay as they are made to order and will require fifty per cent deposit.
Prints
Found object sculptures
The awakening of hypnos
Bronze on stone unique
Exhibited ra summer exhibition 2020
originals & Maquettes For Bronze casting
Heads
Four Inspiration
carved limestone
Not for sail
Bronze on granite
a few Others
AI
B'ar trouvé
It is OK to skip the reading and go straight to the remaining pictures
but not recommended!
B'ar Trouvé Bohemian Paris Jazz Bar & Gallery
Walkthrough surreal artwork experience set in the early twentieth century Paris reflecting the culture and art around that period. Constructed of objets trouvés and other sculptures, many of which can be seen earlier in this website.
At and around the bar are sculptures with a nod to Giacometti, Brâncusi and Rodin.
They are narcissistic drinking from bottles & glasses that resemble themselves.
Inspired by Edward Kienholz's Beanery [Stadelijk Museum Amsterdam].
Kienholz was invited and serves behind B'ar Trouvé!
He is constructed from compressed copper piping and his head is a clock set at 10.10.
Surreal dance floor.
Hedonistic hints with cocaine and genuine Absinthe illustrating their destructive nature.
The Discarded Heads Jazz Band - sculptural heads floating & supported by their musical instruments.
'Cornelia Parker' plays trumpet.
On two levels
Firstly, a superficial walk-through bar experience but also a surreal representation of its Bohemian culture, all of the positive and negative elements of that time in Paris.
Ambient sound recorded in the Warwick Castle, Little Venice.
Sidney Bechet's Si Tu Vois Ma Mère performed by a band with O'Brien playing clarinet.
First exhibited at The Heatherley School of Fine Art 2022. Then at Shenfest Open Studio 2023, the annual cultural festival in Shenington - the village where I have my Studio@The Ox Barn Studio in Oxfordshire on the edge of the Costwolds.
I will next re-establish B'ar Trouvé for exhibiting at Tate Modern in 2027 - if only!
It was described, by an eminent sculptor/external examiner from the Slade, as.....
“Extraordinary installation, celebratory, hedonistic, overwhelming, irreverent. His thought, drive, energy & enthusiasm are remarkable”
The installation works best when you walk through it live but the following pictures give you a reasonable feel.
The aim of the installation was to be surreal, chaotic, overwhelming and, of course, irreverent.
The B'ar Trouvé
members of the Jazz Band
& 'Giacomettis' drinking at the bar
more B'ar Trouvé
Dance floor
'Edward Kienholtz' serving cocktails
B'ar Trouvé's
Discarded Heads jazz Band
the end
[for now]
Please Contact me by email
pmsob@me.com
