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Mark Obrien - OBIE
Mark O’Brien - ‘OBIE’

Mark O’Brien ( Obie as he prefers to be called) spent his childhood in Hawthorn and Healesville, Victoria Australia. He has lived for over 20 years in West Ridgley, North West Tasmania. Obie is a self taught artist who has been ‘dabbling’ in art since his high school days. His early works were often house paint on masonite. He continued his whimsical style in pencils and textas on paper for many years and then discovered oils and canvas. Discovering new ways to create different textures is the essence of Obie’s fascination with his art. He feels no restriction in combining all manner of media in creating his fantasies and loves being imaginative, feeling that each painting expresses a life of its own.

ART AWARDS
2003 City of Burnie Tas Art Exhibition - First Prize -Local Artist Section
2002 Latrobe Australia Day Award, Tasmania. -Highly Commended - open section
2000 St Mary’s College Art Exhibition, Maryborough, Queensland -First Prize - for works on paper
2000 St Mary’s College Art Exhibition, Maryborough, Queensland -First Prize - Open Section
1988 7 NT Tasmania. Art Exhibition, Burnie, Tasmania -Highly Commended
1997 Rotary Tasmania Day Art Exhibition, Ulverstone, Tasmania. -Minor award
1994 28th Annual Mersey Apex Club Art Exhibition, Devonport, Tasmania. -Minor award

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 ‘Out there Somewhere’, The Thistle Gallery, Ross, Tasmania
2006 ‘Good things on Small Canvases’, Tasmania Shop and Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2006 ‘Somewhere In Between’, Tasmania Shop and Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2006 ‘Imaginitive Canvases’ The Thistle Gallery, Ross, Tasmania
2005 ‘A Touch of Magic’, Creative Paper Mill, Burnie, Tasmania
2005 ‘Works from the Heart’, Tasmania Shop and Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2004 ‘Naive Paintings’, Design Centre - Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania.
2004 ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’, Tasmania Shop and Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2003 ‘Obie Shines’, Burnie Shines Festival, Creative Paper, Burnie, Tasmania
2003 ‘Whimsical Works’, Fig , Hobart, Tasmania
2003 ‘Recent works’,The Groovy Penguin, Penguin, Tasmania
2003 ‘Recent works’, Creative Paper Mill, Burnie, Tasmania
2002 Red Hot Momas’, Rialto Restaurant and Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania.
2002 ‘A Wee Bit of Fantasy and Light Hearted Fun at Inka’, Inka Art Gallery Inc., Hobart, Tasmania.
2002 ‘Recent Works’, Creative Paper Mill, Burnie, Tasmania.
2001 ‘A Wee Bit of Fantasy and Light hearted Fun VIII’, Gumnut Restaurant and Gallery, Wynyard,Tasmania.
2000 ‘A Wee Bit of Fantasy and Light hearted Fun VII’, Rialto Restaurant and Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania.
1999 ‘A Wee Bit of Fantasy and Light hearted Fun VI’, Rialto Restaurant and Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania.
1997 ‘A Wee Bit of Fantasy and Light hearted Fun V’, Rialto Restaurant and Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania.
1995 ‘A Wee Bit of Fantasy and Light hearted Fun IV’, Rialto Restaurant and Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania.
1995 ‘A Wee Bit of Fantasy and Light hearted Fun III’, Serpentine Gallery, Cooee, Tasmania.
1989 ‘A Wee Bit of Fantasy and Light hearted Fun II’, Joyce’s Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania.
1988 ‘A Wee Bit of Fantasy and Light hearted Fun’, Rialto Restaurant and Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003 Frogmouth Gallery, Sheffield, Tasmania
1999 ‘Forms, Fantasy and Scape’, No Boundaries Art Studio, Penguin, Tasmania.
1987 ‘Savage River Art Project’, Savage River Hall, Burnie Regional Gallery and Cockatoo Gallery - Launceston,
Tasmania.

SELECTED GALLERIES
The Tasmania Shop and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania.
The Design Centre of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania
Eagles Nest Fine Art Gallery, Airey’s Inlet, Victoria.
Creative Paper Mill, Burnie, Tasmania.
The Thistle Gallery, Ross, Tasmania

PUBLICATIONS / MEDIA ARTICLES
The Examiner Newspaper, 14 January 2006, Spectrum Arts, ‘Bursting and Joyful’, p35
The Tasmanian Mercury Newspaper, 14 May 2005, Inside Arts, ‘Works from the Heart’, p13
The Examiner Newspaper, 8 January 2005, Spectrum Arts, ‘Obie takes new look’, p36
The Examiner Newspaper, 11 December 2004, Spectrum Arts, ‘Liberating exhibition’, p40
The Advocate Newspaper, 2 October 2003, ‘Featured Artists work full of hope’, p6
The Examiner Newspaper, 19 September 2003, ‘Burnie is ready to Shine’, p8
The Examiner Newspaper, 24 August , 2003, ‘Art just sends Obie right over the Moon’, p15
Coast and Country Magazine, Autumn 2003, ‘Burnie’s Welcoming Air’, pp 34-35
Tasmania Life Magazine, Autumn 2003, ‘Obie OBrien’ p8
The Tasmanian Mercury Newspaper, 8 February 2003, Gallery Watch,’Whimsical Works’, p 40
The Advocate Newspaper, 26 October, 2002, ‘Obie art at Rialto’, p36
The Advocate Newspaper, 20 April, 2002, ‘Be bathed in a glow’ p 34
The Advocate Newspaper, 23 January, 1999, ‘A bit of fun’, p35
The Advocate Newspaper, 30 August, 1997, ‘A bit of fantasy’, p30
The Advocate Newspaper, 16 May, 1995, ‘Wee bit of fantasy and a lot of fun’, p32
The Advocate Newspaper, 19 May, 1995, ‘Self-taught artist shares fantasy, fun’, p34
The Advocate Newspaper, 14 August 1988, Arts Diary, p 32
The Tasmanian Mercury Newspaper, 12 March, 1988, Weekend Review - Arts, ‘Mini Renaissance in Savage River’


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