Sorcha O’Brien is an artist based in Limerick City, Ireland. Sorcha graduated from LSAD in 2001 with a BA in Fine Art, followed by an MA in 2010 at Wimbledon College of Art. “My personal practice take the body as a starting point, using it as a material in which to explore the forces that work with and against it, be it environmental or societal with a particular focus on the maternal experience. My interest is in the tensions that are created when these elements are brought together and intertwined.

Though beginning in collage and predominantly drawing based, my practice also includes work with wax, ceramic and soft sculpture using pillows pulled taught with wire to relate ideas of physical comfort, malleability and restraint. The body is encumbered, but there is also a deliberate ambiguity of struggle and mergence in the works, the body becomes treated as an equivalent material, an object that can be shaped adjusted and re-organized.”