One of Ireland's most innovative and versatile artists, Patrick O'Reilly has become well known for his dynamic visual vocabulary. O'Reilly produces bronzes with a kind of dreamlike, surreal exactitude.

Perfectly at home in his wide variations of scale, there is an underlying note of social compassion and identification with the lonely, and the unwanted people of society. And from a certain angle, O'Reilly can also be seen as one of the creators of a new kind of folk culture and street mythology.

He draws from contemporary imagery ranging from fair ground figures to horror comics, but there is a humour and imaginative freedom in his approach. Patrick O'Reilly born in 1957 in Kilkenny, Ireland and studied at the Belfast Collehttp://theauctionroom.com/auctions/18...