“Art can change the world, one atom at a time. Nobody is the same but we are all alike. Good enough art is the type that can start a compelling conversation about something we didn’t know”.
TOC 2025
Exhibitions
Al Riwaq Art Space - Kingdom of Barhrain June-September 2025
Data/Human
As our lives become increasingly entangled with the digital, the boundaries between lived experience and online representation continue to dissolve.
Data/Human reflects on how data shapes identity, influences consciousness, and affects our ability to connect, choose, and resist.
Featuring local, regional, and international artists working across diverse mediums, the exhibition critically examines the interpretation and application of data in relation to the human condition.
It asks: What does it mean to be conscious, to choose, and to connect in a world that rarely pauses—and what is mankind’s role in what comes next.
Title: I am not sure if its me
Title: Serene Youth Worker
Projects
Current
Glasswork
Commissions
Requests for portraits of people and pets welcome.
Artist Statement
Thomas O’Connor’s practice of enquiry underpins his exploration of the nature of “Youth work” in challenging environments. Straddling a spectrum from studio based to socially engaged processes he creates artworks across different media; drawing, text, painting, glass and events. Drawing on an archive collected over twenty years documenting his and others experiences in the sector he teases out dialectic themes relating to the practice of making the world a better place. His current body of work in kiln formed glass is a series of urbanscapes, portraits and self portraits that question the concrete identity of the individuals in their material, social and spiritual environmental contexts.