Daniel P. O'Neill is a museum artist, an archaeological interpretation specialist, and one of Europe's leading museum modelmakers. His work can be seen in many European institutions, and private collections worldwide.
An Industrial Design graduate from the Kent Institute of Art and Design (University of Kent, England), Daniel O'Neill has been an artist, designer 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 for the Irish department of antiquities, and, after a two year gap spent training as a commercial pilot, he returned to set up his own design practice undertaking work for other European Union departments engaged in designing and building heritage centres. Much of O'Neill's current work is in architecture. He enjoys recreating the architectural process in miniature 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. His previous architectural projects range from medieval building reconstructions to modern office developments. Model ship commissions are also regularly undertaken. 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 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 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.
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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/members/oneill.d/artwork To discuss a commission, please contact Mark Lewison at. oneildg@iol.ie
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