Fine Art Photography School of Fine Art

Annabell O’Donnell

(she/her)

Annabell O’Donnell is an Irish artist working with still and moving images – which extend themselves into the realm of print and text. Through her work she engages in dialogue surrounding the form of self, memory, longing and impermanence. Centering on the encounter between materiality and place, her artistic sensibility is characterised by transience and un-foldings, inspired by the qualities of naturally-occurring phenomena. Her ongoing works reveal scenes of intertwining and deeply attuned interconnections between disparate forms of life. Through manipulations in scale and fragmentation, these images string together a narrative that transform our perceptions on looking and being wherein they become glimpses of memory – falling quietly in and out of sequence.

Contact
a.odonnell1@student.gsa.ac.uk
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Works
Degree show
Additional Works

Degree show

Forming a longstanding correspondence with place, the photographic work conceptualises a reciprocity between the personal/non human and durations of time – a slowness that is hard to perceive or reach.

silver gelatin print on glass
rock drawing, steel etching on awagami hosho paper
silver gelatin hand print, acrylic
installation details, silver gelatin hand prints
silver gelatin print

The work extends itself following a compulsive emphasis on the mythologised aspects of naturally occurring phenomena – 

sub-lithic bodies of rock, voids of water and the trees phantom limb. 

silver gelatin hand print, acrylic
installation details, silver gelatin hand print
installation details, silver gelatin hand print

silver gelatin hand print
silver gelatin hand print

Additional Works

“Time Here Is Endless, It Moves Slow”  Super 8 Film, Donegal, Ireland 2024, Black and White, Silent.

This moving image is a personal response to the concept of water as a site of planetary origins – a prelude and multitude of becoming-with.

super 8 stills

Super 8, Donegal, Ireland, July, 2023, Black and White, Silent.

Risograph Print

Super 8 film still printed on japanese paper

Risograph Print

Super 8 film still printed on Japanese paper

Risograph Print

Super 8 still printed on Japanese paper