Daniel P.O'Neill Associates

Architectural,Industrial & Marine Models

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Shipwreck 1708.

The work of Daniel P. O'Neill. MSIAD

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Daniel P. O'Neill is a museum artist, an archaeological reconstruction/interpretation specialist, and one of Europe's leading museum modelmakers. His work can be seen in many European institutions, and private collections worldwide.

A graduate from Medway College of Design (now University for the Creative Arts) in England, Daniel O'Neill has been a designer, artist and modelmaker, for 20 years ,with more than half that time in the museum design field. Originally based in London and Dublin, he worked for several years as an industrial designer for the Irish government's design advisory service to industry. After a two year self imposed gap spent training as a commercial pilot in the US and elsewhere, he returned to set up his own design practice specialising in exhibit design and archaeological reconstruction work for heritage centres and regional museums established under European Union initiatives.
Much of O'Neill's current work is for maritime collectors,and museums, and as he still flies regularly, his aviation experience allows his artwork to demonstrate remarkable realism in anything that needs to generate a naturalistic impression. Dan has lived in the US for the last ten years and during that time his marine models and sculptures have been sold at Christies fine art auctions in New York and can be found in many US private and corporate collections.
He has undertaken design/model work for television and film companies, museum and exhibition design firms and architectural practices large and small. His clients include the BBC, Ove Arup, Event Communications (Europe's largest museum design group)The Royal College of Art and the British Museum. He is also one of the few artists able to list Saddam Hussein as a client (though obviously not currently!!) A full list of clients is available on request.

O'Neill's techniques are the result of art school training and years of experience. This generates a lifelike quality sadly missing in many 'modern' models and sculptures that suffer from a sterile, over technical approach. This is most apparent in his shipwreck models. The movement of water is extremely well conveyed through the use of sculpted porcelain clay. 


The pictures on these pages are a very small proportion of his work.

Please view the other pages of this website for more examples of work in various disciplines.

To see slideshows of recent work go to,
http://www.photoshow.com/watch/uN4kG5aQ


http://www.photoshow.com/watch/wD7tU3wg

 and

http://www.photoshow.com/watch/TU7vB9FI

To see video of latest museum installation got to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UarOFggLqMg

To discuss a commission, please contact Mark Lewison at. oneildg@iol.ie